9-year-old boy badly burned

Published 10:11 pm Friday, May 23, 2008

EVERETT — A 9-year-old boy was rushed to a Seattle hospital Friday after suffering severe burns from running through a fire.

The boy suffered second- and third-degree burns in the incident, which happened about 6:05 p.m. in the 2300 block of 116th Street SE, Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes said.

He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Hynes said.

Snohomish County sheriff’s Capt. Kevin Prentiss said a 16-year-old boy decided to light a jar of gasoline on fire, and then threw it onto his front lawn.

His brother, the 9-year-old, decided to run through the flames and got burned on his upper body, Prentiss said.