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A family from San Pedro is currently in Boston, Massachusetts, after their daughter, 9 year-old Katerin Michel Perez got badly burned over the Easter holiday. She ended up with burns to 53% of her body.

It happened on Good Friday, when according to the San Pedro Sun, Perez's mother, was treating her hair for lice by applying gasoline to her scalp. The child somehow passed by a lit stove, and the fumes from the gasoline spontaneously ignited her hair and upper body. The fire was not easily put out, and the child was severely injured.

She was immediately rushed to the San Pedro PolyClinic, and then later airlifted to the KHMH. The doctors there determined that she needed specialised treatment, and that's when concerned persons collaborated with Yvette Burks from the Burn Victim Mercy Fund to make extraordinary efforts to rush Katerin and her father to the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Boston, where she receiving treatment tonight. The doctors there have determined that she suffered burn injuries to his arms, hands, and face, and she is at risk to have permanent vision loss, and functional loss of her hands. For all the efforts made, she will receive the treatment in the US at no cost to her family.

But while her continued survival is of the highest importance, health authorities stress that the home remedy of gasoline to cure lice is very dangerous and should not be used under any circumstances.