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Have a listen. In the fall of 2015, John Koesl Sharon's mother called him with some worrying news.

Well, you know, my mom calls me with, you know, she texts me with these things like, you know,

this is what happened to me today, I'm not feeling well, and so she sent me pictures of her hand and she

said, you know, I burnt my hand and it's really bad.

His mom, Lois, said she'd been helping a stepdad weld a gate on their farm in Wisconsin.

And she was holding that gate and he dropped a glove. The

glove fell into a pile of leaves. And to not start the leaves on fire he wanted to

hold the torch up and away from the ground as he leaned over to pick up the glove.

The tip of the blue flame had grazed the top of Lois's hand.

A torch is 2,700 degrees so it doesn't take but just a flash in proximity and it's going to burn it almost

to the bone.

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