Pyrenees: Girl burned by boiling coffee, airlifted from mountain cabin

A ten-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns to her thigh and arm from an overturned coffee pot on Saturday, August 9. She was airlifted from a cabin in Laruns to Pau hospital.

On Saturday, August 9, around 4 p.m., firefighters from Sdis 64 urgently evacuated a ten-year-old girl who had been seriously burned by a coffee pot accidentally knocked over in the Béarn Pyrenees.

On board the Civil Security Dragon 64 helicopter, a mountain emergency doctor intervened at the Dous Boues de Peyrelue hut, near the Peyrelue peak, in the commune of Laruns, to rescue the child who had second-degree burns to her thigh and arm.

She was transferred to the hospital in Pau.