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An Inland Empire teenager is home after being hospitalized for months.<\/p>\n
He suffered third-degree burns in a house fire and now is working to walk and play basketball again.<\/p>\n
King El-Asar, 13, is going to need extensive rehabilitation. He will require more than what is covered by insurance.<\/p>\n
The young basketball player spent 104 days in the hospital, recovering from severe burns on half of his body after surviving an accidental fire at home.<\/p>\n
“He was engulfed in flames. I didn’t know where they were coming from. All I knew was his bare skin was literally ablaze,” Michelle Franco, King’s mother, said. “Seeing your kid in that state. I don’t think any parent is prepared to see their kid. I don’t want to say lifeless, but he was mummified at one point, all bandages.”<\/p>\n
King said the wound care was also painful.<\/p>\n
“They scrub you. It’s sort of a cloth towel. It’s soft, but to your skin, oooh, it feels like needles,” King said.<\/p>\n
King’s mom, Michelle, played basketball at USC and now coaches professionally abroad. The game has helped get them through this.<\/p>\n
“First quarter. Yeah, we’re like 5 minutes into the game, maybe a little winded. We got through the beginning of it, but there’s so much more to go,” Michelle said.<\/p>\n
She’s determined to get King through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
They’ve created a GoFundMe page to help pay for the rehabilitation he will need. Those looking to help can click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Inland Empire<\/a>California<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Inland Empire teenager is home after being hospitalized for months. He suffered third-degree burns in a house…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,7,9,8,5519,100,1181],"class_list":["post-418789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-ie","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}