Centre Man Critically Burned Late Saturday Afternoon

Image Credit: Atrium Health EMS

T.L. Sullivan | The Weekly Ledger News | Local News (WEIS)

CENTRE, Ala.  — According to reports emergency personnel with Centre Fire, Atrium Floyd EMS, Center Police, and Cherokee County Sheriff's Department were dispatched to a residence late Saturday afternoon in the Big Nose Community where a Centre man in his 30s was critically burned. The man sustained critical burns to the lower part of his body and extremities after throwing paint thinner on a bonfire.

Image: Ariel Photo of Big Nose Community

Atrium Floyd EMS personnel treated the man on the scene, he was then transported to the helipad at Atrium Floyd Cherokee Medical Center in Center where a life flight helicopter was waiting to transport the victim to Birmingham where he was later admitted into the Intensive Care Burn Unit at UAB Medical Center.

We will update with more information as it becomes available.