A five-year-old boy and his mother suffered severe burns following a fire at a social gathering in a housing estate in Kerry at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Neighbours had gathered around a firepit in a garden at Loreto Convent Estate in Killarney on Saturday night when the blaze got out of control shortly after 10pm.<\/p>\n
It is understood an accelerant may have been put on the firepit leading to the incident and resulting in serious injuries to those sitting around the fire.<\/p>\n
It is believed the boy was sitting on a sun lounger closest to the firepit.<\/p>\n
Family and neighbours rushed to help those who were injured and contacted emergency services.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have confirmed that an investigation is under way and a technical examination has been undertaken.<\/p>\n
“Six people, men, women and children, were conveyed to hospital for the treatment of injuries sustained during the incident,” garda\u00ed said in a statement.<\/p>\n
They were brought by ambulance to hospital for treatment of their injuries.<\/p>\n
The mother and her child are said to be in a serious condition.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing and it is understood that foul play is not suspected at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-year-old boy and his mother suffered severe burns following a fire at a social gathering in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-502455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}