Boy, 12, gets a magnifying glass for Christmas and accidentally sets his family’s front lawn on FIRE
- A 12-year-old boy decided to try out a magnifying he got for Christmas, accidentally setting the lawn outside his family’s Texas home on fire
- Nissa-Lynn Parson said her family didn’t think twice about giving her son, Cayden, an avid reader, a magnifying glass for the Christmas holiday
- The family, however, didn’t realize he’d be curious to see how it worked magnifying the sun’s rays
- After going with his brothers outside to find out, Cayden rushed back in because newspapers had caught fire and accidentally set the very-dry lawn ablaze
- Family and neighbors raced with water and turned on the sprinklers to put out the flames and no one was hurt
- Parson said all was forgiven and that the incident, while it could have been much worse, is now a cherished, Christmas memory
A 12-year-old boy trying out a magnifying glass he got for Christmas accidentally set the front lawn outside his family’s home in Texas on fire.
No one was hurt and all was forgiven. But the boy’s mother Nissa-Lynn Parson couldn’t resist posting video footage and images of the December 25th incident on her Facebook page.
She said the family didn’t think twice when her son Cayden, an avid reader, requested and got the magnifying glass as a gift for Christmas.
A 12-year-old boy trying out a magnifying glass he got for Christmas accidentally helped set the front lawn outside his family’s home in Texas on fire. No one was hurt and all was forgiven. But the boy’s mother Nissa-Lynn Parson couldn’t resist posting images on Facebook
Parson also included video footage of the small blaze, which shows family members running to extinguish the flames
The family didn’t realize, however, that he might be tempted to see what might happen if used the glass to magnify the sun’s rays.
‘We discovered that he and his two brothers went out on the driveway and burned a couple holes in some paper,’ she wrote on the Facebook post.
‘Everything was under control until the boys came running into the house telling us that a corner of the lawn was on fire and the Christmas lights were melting!’ explains the mom, who rushed out with other family members to find the very dry lawn fast-turning black’ because of the fire.
The adults grabbed buckets of water and turned on the sprinklers to stop the small fire and keep it from spreading to a neighbor’s lawn.
‘What a sight to see – a bunch of people running around crazy trying to put a front lawn fire out while wearing matching Christmas jammies!’ wrote Parsons in her Facebook post.
The mother insisted to all, ‘this was an accident’.
‘It could have been worse but it wasn’t,’ she explains. ‘So instead of a tragedy it will now be a Christmas to remember! 2019- The Christmas the lawn lit on fire’.
She added one disclaimer: ‘Oh and never buy a magnifying glass for your son!’
Parsons did not immediately respond when DailyMail.com reached out.
Parson (pictured) added one disclaimer about the Christmas fire: ‘Oh and never buy a magnifying glass for your son!’