VIDEO: A 12-year-old girl from Brownsburg is on the mend from serious burns after trying a TikTok trend. Kelsey Dybala put a popular sensory toy in the microwave and it exploded. Now, she and her family are warning other kids about the danger.

Stacey Dybala said it took just seconds for a simple toy to explode and seriously injure her daughter. Stacey was in another part of the house a couple of weeks ago, when she heard screaming. “All of a sudden, I heard, ‘It burns! It burns! It burns!’ and I was like, ‘What did you do?'” Stacey said.

Kelsey suffered severe burns on her neck and face after trying a trend she saw on TikTok. Videos showed kids heating a NeeDoh Nice Cube, a popular sensory squeeze toy, in the microwave. That advice is on social media, too.

“I’d seen a bunch of things saying if you put it in the microwave it gets softer,” Kelsey said. “I had started to actually see that people were doing it and people were encouraging it.” So she tried it. She said she heated the cube five seconds at a time, checking it each time.

After a minute total, she took it out, squeezed it and the gel-filled cube exploded, sending hot liquid into her face. “I was in, like, shock that what happened because it was over 200 degrees. So I was just yelling, ‘It burns! It burns! It burns,” she said.

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A deadly house fire in Minnesota that claimed the lives of an NHL reporter and her three children over the weekend does not appear to have been intentional, officials said Monday, citing preliminary investigative findings.

The White Bear Lake Fire Department released a statement Monday following the Saturday morning fire that claimed the life of 37-year-old Minnesota Wild correspondent Jessi Pierce and her three children. “We are in the very early stages of the investigation, and our preliminary findings have not led to any evidence that the fire was set intentionally,” the press release read.

“The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The official cause and further information will be released once the investigation is complete.” Officials said that in addition to the Minnesota State Fire Marshal’s Office, they are “dedicating all possible resources to this investigation.”

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Eastbound lanes of state Route 204 reopened as firefighters respond to a house fire in Lake Stevens, according to Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue. No one was injured in the blaze. Crews responded to the 7900 block of SR 204 around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Two stories of the home caught fire and were left with “significant” fire and smoke damage, according to the fire department. “As firefighters made entry, blustery winds moving through the home contributed to fire growth and challenging conditions,” the department said. Snohomish Regional’s fire marshal is investigating what caused the fire.

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Firefighters from multiple agencies worked together to rescue a driver trapped in an unstable RV that had partially gone off the road. What began as a report of an unknown injury accident quickly turned into a rescue operation for Rosalia Fire Department and St. John Fire.

Units from St. John Fire arrived first and found an RV that had gone partly off the road over a steep embankment. The person inside had no life-threatening injuries but was pinned in the driver seat by contents in the RV. The RV was in an unstable position and shifted on the soft shoulder of the road as crews talked to the person inside. When the Rosalia rescue truck and a rescue member from City of Colfax Fire arrived, the RV was secured and the person was successfully freed.

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PHOTOS: A house designated as surplus within a city park was put to good use on Saturday by Clallam County Fire District 3. Thirty-five career and volunteer firefighters conducted multiple live-fire drills throughout March 21 in the two-story home within the City of Sequim’s Gerhardt Park. After proper permitting, the City of Sequim offered the house to the fire district for training purposes after they did not receive any bids to move the house at 1610 S. Third Ave.

It was allowed to safely burn down Saturday afternoon after many training rotations. “These types of trainings are truly valuable to the organization,” said Fire Chief Justin Grider. “They are such value-added. We’ve got firefighters working on our staff that since they’ve been on, they haven’t had a structure fire to go to. “They’ve done a lot of medical calls, car crashes, but fires are few and far between, so when we get an acquired structure like this, to put that much realism and that much training behind it, it’s a valuable experience for them.”

Firefighters must participate in live-fire training once a year, Grider said, and they typically do that in training container boxes. “But those are predictable because there’s only so many variables you can learn from those,” he said. Firefighters all conducted a safety walk-through in the house before the training began, including the fire district’s Explorer Scout Post 1003 of high schoolers who conducted their own training there without fire earlier in the week. Grider said firefighters on Saturday were divided up in teams, and didn’t know which of the eight rooms were going to be on fire for each rotation.

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