01.10.2011                      04.Cheschwan. 5772

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‘Miracle’ saves young teen from turning into ‘human torch’

13-year-old boy suffers serious injuries after spray deodorant thrown onto sidewalk explodes.

Tomer Granot, a 13-year-old boy from Kfar Bilu, threw a can of a popular brand of spray deodorant onto the sidewalk outside his home as a prank and ended up with serious burns on his face and body, being treated at Kaplan Medical Center on Sunday night.
Dr. Uri Shulman, a plastic surgeon at the Rehovot hospital, said it was a “miracle” that the flames did not set his clothing afire, as he would then have turned into a “human torch.” During the next few days it will be decided whether the teen requires skin transplants, Shulman said….