Firefighters who believe an eight-year-old boy was burnt after using candles to make a games console work have issued a safety warning.
Cairan Davies of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, is recovering in a specialist burns unit after he sustained 8% burns to his chest.
Mid and West Wales Fire Service said it believed he was playing on the console when the incident occured.
However Cairan's family have said it is not clear what happened.
A crew was called to Cairan's family home at 17:10 GMT on Monday.
A spokesman for the service said: "It appears that the boy was upstairs playing on a Wii games' console when the incident occurred.
"I understand that tea lights had been lit to make the console work."
The spokesman added: "This is a very dangerous practice and although they may seem harmless enough, tea lights can pose a serious threat as they can ignite curtains, paper and other combustible materials in the vicinity of the candles."
The boy was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea by air ambulance where he is being treated in the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery.
His family said he had undergone a skin graft from his leg to his chest.
In a statement issued by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Sarah Davies and James Setterfield, Cairan's mother and step-father, said: "The truth is that at the moment no-one knows what happened.
"There has not been an investigation, and Cairan is too upset to speak about the incident. Until he feels able to talk about it, we are unable to find out what happened."
Ms Davies and Mr Setterfield added: "We would like to stress that we do not allow any of our children to play with matches."
They said Cairan was "doing well" but that it would take a while for him to fully recover.
Nintendo, which manufacturers the Wii console, has been asked to comment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-17030596
No electicity in Wales?
No electicity in Wales?
Your morning dose of WTF!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: No electicity in Wales?
I realize children operate out of a logic all their own (as do the Welsh), but I can't fathom the thought process that would lead to using candles to try to get a game console to work.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
Re: No electicity in Wales?
He was summoning the Gamer Gods
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: No electicity in Wales?
You're doing it on purpose now aren't you?electicity
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: No electicity in Wales?
Oh fuck....
What was I saying about alcoholic dementia?
Would you like some cake?
What was I saying about alcoholic dementia?
Would you like some cake?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: No electicity in Wales?
Gob!
No more posting without a DICTIONARY!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan