COLDWATER TOWNSHI, MI (WTVB) – A one year old baby girl suffered serious burns Monday afternoon in Coldwater Township. Branch County Central Dispatch reports they were notified shortly after 4:00 p.m. yesterday by a caller who said the infant had fallen into a burn pit on their property on Hodunk Road just south of Barnhardt Road.
Central Dispatch said the baby suffered burns on 18% of her body, mostly to her arms and legs.
According to the dispatcher, the victim was conscious and breathing when she was taken by Life Care Ambulance to ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital. The infant was then transferred, although ProMedica wasn’t able to say at this time which hospital is now treating the baby.