BBQ: Man Burnt

11 June 2013, 16:34 | Updated: 11 June 2013, 16:36

A man's suffered serious burns while trying to light a barbeque in Hertfordshire.

Ambulance crews were alerted to a property along Blythway in Welwyn Garden City at 6.35pm on Monday 10 June 2013 to a report of a man believed to have been injured whilst attempting to ignite a BBQ.

The man, who is believed to be in his 20s, received serious injuries and, following rapid treatment and stabilisation by the ambulance crews, he was taken to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage for further care.

He was later taken to a specialist burns unit in Chelmsford, Essex.