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How a locally run summer camp is helping pediatric burn survivors live strong
Atlan Stegall will always remember the day it happened. He was 6 years old and riding a dirt bike with his dad on rural land. As he prepared to take on a hill, the bike’s tire hit a pothole. Atlan lost control, crash-landed and became pinned between the bike and a barbed wire fence. The hot engine was pressed against his exposed calf, causing second- and third-degree burns, even searing some of the letters from the bike’s Yamaha logo into his flesh.
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