LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas mom shared her story with 8 Information Now after her 2-year-old son was caught in the midst of a home hearth.
“Just pure shock,” Religion Jones mentioned. “I mean the way that it can just happen.”
Jones mentioned her household was turned the wrong way up final week after the unthinkable occurred — a hearth of their dwelling.
“I just see orange coming from downstairs,” Jones recalled. “And smoke and the fire alarm starts going off.”
She walked 8 Information Now via the day the hearth began, the flames igniting within the laundry room after which spreading along with her toddler close by.
“I just run downstairs and the next thing I know,” Jones mentioned. “I just see him in the midst of all of it.”
Her son Atlas even caught on hearth himself, leaving extreme burns on almost 30% of his physique.
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
“I grabbed him, pulled him out of the fire,” Jones mentioned, describing the frantic second she saved his life. “Grabbed a blanket and I wrapped him in it.”
Atlas is now within the begin of an extended, grueling hospital keep, going via surgical procedures and unimaginable ache,
“They had to take all of the dead skin off,” Jones mentioned. “They did cadaver skin.”
Fortunately, he’s slowly on the mend, and as Jones and her household do what they’ll to assist him heal, they wish to elevate consciousness.
“Just how fast things can turn around is crazy,” Jones mentioned.
They consider that fireplace sparked when a bottle of chemical compounds fell subsequent to a scorching equipment, creating that harmful scenario for Atlas.
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
“I think we just become desensitized to it because we work around it all day,” Jones mentioned. “And you forget the hazard.”
The household can be asking for neighborhood assist as they work to financially and emotionally get better from the traumatic expertise worse than many may ever think about.
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
Atlas, a 2-year-old who suffered burns to 30% of his physique after a house hearth. (Courtesy of Religion Jones)
“Thoughts and prayers mean more to me than any dollar amount can,” Jones mentioned. “Just praying for a speedy recovery.”
The Jones household has began a GoFundMe to assist with medical bills and repairs for his or her dwelling.
