Marshall Man Dies of Burn Injuries

MARSHALL — A Marshall man died Friday from injuries sustained when he was severely burned Thursday night. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Marshall Battalion Chief Jack Hanson said the burns occurred about 7:45 p.m. as two men were working to excite a fire in a cast iron, wood-burning stove in the 3800 block of South Washington Avenue. The men used a “flammable liquid,” likely paint thinner, to help ignite the fire, Hanson said. Then one man tried to stoke the fire by using more of the flammable liquid, and the fire ignited the vapors.

Hanson said the victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was originally taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Marshall and then was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas because the weather did not allow a helicopter flight. The other man was not injured, Hanson said.