Boy Burned When Brother Played with Lighter: Officials

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A boy was seriously burned when he and his brother were playing with a lighter at an Annapolis homeless shelter.

The Capital-Gazette newspaper reports a 4-year-old boy was flown to the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care unit in Baltimore Sunday morning with serious burns. The youngster was accidentally set on fire by his 6-year-old brother who was playing with a lighter at the Light House shelter.

Firefighters say the younger boy suffered serious, but non-life threatening, burns to his torso, chest and shoulders.

Annapolis Fire Department spokesman Janet Wiseman told the newspaper the boys were left unattended.

See the full Capital-Gazette story here.