TIKTOK DISASTER
Girl badly burned by Web-vid stunt
A 13-year-old Oregon girl was hospitalized after she suffered severe burns while attempting a TikTok challenge, according to her family.
Destini Crane, of Portland, had brought a candle, lighter and rubbing alcohol into her home’s bathroom to try to recreate a popular video in which someone uses flammable liquid on a mirror to draw a shape and then lights it on fire, ABC News reported.
“I was in the living room talking with my mom, and I heard her scream my name,” the girl’s mother, Kimberly Crane, told the outlet.
“So I went — and the bathroom door and everything was on fire. Destini was on fire. Things in the bathroom were on fire.”
Destini’s mom pulled her into the living room and ripped off her shirt while a neighbor called for an ambulance.
The teen was brought to the hospital, where she has been in the intensive-care unit since the May 13 incident to receive treatment for her third-degree burns.
“I know that when she wakes up and fully understands, she’s probably going to freak out,” her mother told ABC News.
The family is now warning others to keep a close eye on what their children are doing on social media.
“It’s really important to be present with your children, because we can monitor them, we have parental controls, we can do all that all we want, but things slip through,” said Destini’s
sister, Andrea Crane.
“And so it’s really important to be present with your children and have that transparency of, ‘Hey, what are you into? What are you doing right now?’ ”