A FIRE brigade is urging parents to take care to avoid a repeat of an accident in which a child was badly burned.
Michael McCorry sustained secondary and superficial burns over his entire body in an explosion in a garden shed, involving a tin of thinners.
Another youngster, eight-year-old Christopher Corley, received flash burns to his face while his brother David, 12, also received hospital treatment following the incident in Stockdale Avenue, Dormanstown, Redcar, last week.
A spokeswoman for Middlesbrough General Hospital said 12-year-old Michael was out of intensive care and on a ward where his condition is comfortable.
The brothers' mother, Heather Helm, 33, said David had been 'a little hero' after he came to the aid of his brother and Michael.
Cleveland Fire Brigade is warning adults of the dangers of leaving flammable liquids in places accessible to children and urged parents to be vigilant to the whereabouts and activities of their children.
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