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Young
Children Burned by Curling Irons
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In an average year children
under 5 years of age suffer approximately
7,700 burn injuries which require hospital
emergency room treatment when they touched
hot curling irons. Burns to young children
represented about 50 percent of all
injuries with hair curling irons during
these years. Teenagers and adults should
never leave a hot curling iron where a
young child can reach it.
Another hazard with hair curling irons is
eye injury to the user. There are
estimates that there were 5,400 emergency
room treated burns to the eye per year
when users accidentally touched their eyes
with the hot iron. Most victims were young
women between 15 and 24 years old.
During the past few years, curling irons
have been made to get hotter. These hotter
curling irons may cause more severe
injuries when young children touch them
and when users inadvertently touch their
eyes and face with the curling irons.
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Current Texas
Burn Bans
Applications for
Abilene
Fire Department
Firefighter applications are no longer being accepted.
The application period
ended
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM.
If you are interested in becoming a Firefighter with Abilene Fire
Department at a later date, the current preliminary
requirements can
be found
here.
[Click Here]
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