Firefighter seriously burned while cooking at Homestead station

Paramedics airlifted firefighter to Miami trauma center

HOMESTEAD, Fla. ā€“ A Miami-Dade County firefighter was seriously burned Monday while cooking for his colleagues at a fire station in Homestead, authorities said.

The incident happened around noon at the station in the 300 block of Northwest Second Street.

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Paramedics airlifted the firefighter, who was not identified,Ā to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

"The firefighter is doing well and is expected to make a full recovery," a spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue said.


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