Texas woman severely burned after hand sanitizer catches fire: ‘My whole body was just consumed in flames’

Author: CBS News
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Kate Wise (CBS News)

A Texas woman continues to recover in the ICU after her hand sanitizer allegedly caught fire while she was trying to light a candle. CBS station KHOU-TV reports Kate Wise was left with severe burns on her entire body.

Wise, who lives in Round Rock, told the station that on Sunday she put on a hand sanitizer that she keeps to protect herself and three daughters from coronavirus. But when she lit a candle, her hand caught fire.

“It can be something as small as lighting a candle,” Wise said. “Because of the hand sanitizer, it just lit my whole … everywhere I had hand sanitizer on my hand, it just lit my hand with fire.”

Wise said the flames made contact with the off-brand sanitizer bottle and it exploded.

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