Hi guys,
I'm sure that most of us have one of these - cheap, easy to use, small etc - but has anyone had issues like the below??
An extract from an email from a mate of
mine.. (pics at bottom)
Folks,
I know this would be a 1 in a million occurrence but allow me to explain...
On Sat night, I took my daughters and two friends/babysitters (Carmen and
Yo) out for a night camping in Brindabella Valley...
We got there at 4, were fully set up by 5 and fire going by a bit after 6.
I was sorting the
camp, collecting fire wood while Yo and Carmen looked after the girls. Anyways, at about 6.30ish, they volunteered to
cook tea while I played with Ruby and Matilda.
As with how ivan and I cooked for a good few hours in the creek in Bendethra, I put the Gasmate cooker on the aluminium table with a pan on it too
cook the sausages/chops.
After cooking for a while, I could smell what seemed to be burning plastic, I went over to the cooker, ruby and matilda standing beside me, lifted the pan, saw the front of the cooker warped and moved the pan off to one side
(still on the cooker) to let the heat escape. Seconds later there was a
fairly big bang as the cooker exploded, I grabbed ruby and Matilda who were about eye height to the table, Carmen jumped backward as the flash went around her and Yo let out a scream and bolted.
Once ruby and Matilda were clear of the potential danger I chased Yo (Carmen was fine) to see blood streaming down her arm. A piece of flying metal had caught her in the crook of her left elbow and gashed it. She went into mild shock, threw up and nearly fainted, but with the aid of the trusty St
John's
first aid kit, we washed, checked and stemmed the bleeding with a pressure bandage.
While Ruby fanned Yo with a tea towel to keep her cool (ruby was an absolute legend during all this - matildas was happy eating chips in her car
seat), Carmen and I packed the tents, put everything back in/on my car and we headed back into
Canberra, arriving about 10.30pm. Carmen stayed and looked after the girls and I took Yo to the hosp.
FINALLY.... at 5.30am this morning, they put three sticthes in Yo's arm.
The bleeding had stopped and the wound was clean but they were more concerned with reducing scarring.
The cooker was set up properly and used, as I said at the start, in the exact same way (less standing balls deep in a river), as Ivan and I had used his the week earlier...
All I can say is whilst Yo was unlucky, thank f*ck we were lucky enough that the blast went up from the table over Ruby and matildaa... (oh and that Carmen and I weren't hit either) I would hate to start down that little imagination path...
Has anyone heard of anything like this?