The Las Vegas Fire Department issued a warning about the dangers of using a hose left in the sun, sharing heartbreaking photos of a baby Nicholas Woodger who suffered burns from a hose in Arizona.
As the hot summer months are already underway in Vegas, the Vegas Fire & Rescue shared the painful looking photos of little Nicholas covered in burns and blisters, to illustrate the devastation heated water in a hose can cause for family members and their pets.
‘Here in Las Vegas, a garden hose exposed to direct sunlight during summer can heat the water inside the hose (not flowing) to 130-140 degrees,’ they shared to Twitter.
The Vegas Fire Department shared this photo of Nicholas Woodger who suffered second-degree burns to 30 per cent of his body (pictured) after being hit with scalding water from a hose at his home in Arizona. They are warning of the heat dangers as summer gets underway
The boy’s mother, Dominique Woodger, said she was trying to help her son cool off on a hot Arizona day by filling up the pool, but when she turned the faucet on, hot water from the hose ended up hitting her son
The Las Vegas Fire & Rescue issued this warning, with the accompanying photo of little Nicholas to illustrate the dangers the heat poses to people using hoses this summer
‘Let the water flow a few minutes to cool before spraying on people or animals,’ they suggested.
Little Nicholas was nine-months-old when his mother sprayed him with the hose, unknowingly causing second-degree burns to 30 per cent of his body.
His mother, Dominique Woodger, was about to fill a kiddie pool with water, as she turned the water on hot water spewed from the sprinkler head attached to the hose, hitting her son sitting nearby.
On that particular day in Phoenix in 2016, temperatures outside reached 110 degrees.
Fire officials in Phoenix warned on a 115-degree day, water sitting inside a hose left out in the sun could be as hot as 150 degrees.
‘At those temperatures, something as short as a 10 or 30-second exposure can result in a second-degree burn,’ Capt. Larry Subervi with the Phoenix Fire Department said.
The scalding spray of water ended up leaving her son with second-degree burns and his skin blistered and started peeling
The mother (pictured with her son) said: ‘I thought he was crying, because he was mad, because he hates when he gets sprayed in the face. I didn’t think that it was burning him. It’s not something you think about’
The mother said she did not realize the water was extremely hot, but her son began crying and she later noticed his skin started turning red and was blistering and peeling, according to the station.
‘I thought he was crying, because he was mad, because he hates when he gets sprayed in the face,’ Woodger said at the time.
‘I didn’t think that it was burning him. It’s not something you think about.’