A Virginia woman was flown to a burn center after an explosion in a recreational vehicle that blew one of her two dogs through the front windshield at a state park in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend, authorities said.
Ryan Township firefighters called to Locust Lake State Park at about 6 p.m. Sunday found “damage from a pretty heavy explosion and a small fire,” Capt. Matt Morgan told The (Hazleton) Standard-Speaker. The victim was lying on the ground with face and neck burns; Morgan said it’s unclear how she got outside the RV. The woman, believed to be in her 70s, was treated at the scene and flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Morgan said her husband reported that she was in critical condition and expected to be in the burn unit for several months.