Boy Dies Weeks After Gas Explosion
Other Boy Still In Critical Condition
POSTED: 10:59 am EDT June 1,
2009
SCOTLAND, Ind. -- A 10-year-old southern Indiana boy died six weeks after he and a friend were critically burned when a can of gasoline ignited.Nicholas Decker died Friday night at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.He and Josh Merritt, 11, were critically burned April 18 when a can of gasoline ignited as they were playing outside near a fire pit in the Greene County town of Scotland, about 20 miles southwest of Bloomington.
Richland-Taylor Fire Chief Randy Baker, who lives nearby, and two other neighbors extinguished the flames on the boys.Medics who arrived at the scene put the boys into drug-induced comas and they were airlifted to Indianapolis.Merritt remained in critical condition Monday at Riley Hospital.
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