A 5-year-old boy is suffering from serious burns Tuesday night after he accidentally set himself on fire in Hastings, according to the boy's grandmother.
The grandmother, Milcah Haywood, said the boy, identified as Tymir Philemond, somehow got a hold of matches and lit one near a can of gasoline. She said he and his siblings ran into the room yelling "fire," and that's when she saw that he had burns on his face, chest and chin.
Haywood said she rushed Philemond to a nearby fire station because she wanted to get him help quickly and that the hospital was farther away in St. Augustine, she said.
The St. Johns County Fire Rescue Department confirmed that a child with burns was dropped off around 5:15 p.m.
Philemond was flown to the burn center at UF Health Shands in Gainesville with serious injuries, but the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said the child's injuries are non-life-threatening.
Haywood said she isn't sure how he got a hold of the matches, but said the family has been burning trash in the backyard over the weekend and that one of the teen boys may have accidentally left the gas tank on the ground.
Authorities are now investigating.