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Burnt Baby Flown To Shriners
posted (March 1, 2019)

Tonight, 18 month old burn victim Zaela Usher has just arrived at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas.  She was picked up in an ambulance at the KHMH around 3:00 pm - you can see her mother standing by here as she was loaded into the ambulance.  From there, ZAELA - who is stable enough to make the trip - was taken to the airport where an air ambulance was waiting.  The Burn Victim Mercy Fund paid forty thousand dollars for the Air Ambulance, and Shriners provides the treatment as charity.

As we told you her mother, 25 year old Aaronie Gamboa, reported that sometime around 5:00 on Tuesday, an electrical outlet in a bedroom caught on fire; it lit a curtain, which in turn fell on the baby, leaving her with burns to 45% of her body. 

She will be at Shriners for several months.

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