Sequim: Fireman recovering from burn surgery

Published 12:01 am Sunday, February 24, 2002

SEQUIM — A volunteer fireman, severely burned eight days ago when a plastic gasoline can exploded in his hand, is recuperating from surgery at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

A nurse in the medical center’s burn unit said Saturday that Mike McAneny was in serious condition and recovering from his Friday surgery.

During the surgery, doctors used skin grafts — taking skin from one part of McAneny’s body and reattaching it in the burned area — to repair some of the 38-year-old’s burn injuries.

McAneny was burned Feb. 16 after he poured gasoline from the can onto a smoldering campfire in an attempt to get the blaze burning, fire officials said. Flames jumped from the campfire into the can, causing it explode.

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