One of the two boys burned by an explosion in Enumclaw Friday was discharged from Harborview Medical Center on Saturday night.
According to the boy’s grandfather, Carter Josie was at his friend’s house Friday when the explosion happened.
Josie suffered burns on about 8 percent of his body.
The other boy, 10-year-old Beau Ward, is in critical condition with 80 percent of his body burned.
"It's a pretty traumatic thing for kids to wind up in a situation like that, and they were alone, you know,” said Bill Josie, Carter’s grandfather.
Bill Josie says an older brother of Beau was with the two young boys as a fire burned in the backyard of the Ward home. But the fire was dying.
That’s when Beau went to grab a gas canister from the house.
"The fire died down and he went in the house, is what I was told, and they wanted to liven the fire up again,” the elder Josie said. "He poured it on there and everything just exploded, and he must have been pretty well covered with the flames to get that many burns."
After being airlifted from Enumclaw to Harborview, Beau is still in intensive care.
"We just hope for the best, that's all we can do,” Bill Josie said.
He says he is excited to see his grandson, who was discharged Saturday from Harborview.
But, he says, he hopes what happened will be a lesson to kids and families everywhere.
"It'll be a good lesson to the other kids, let them know about it. Tell them exactly what happened,” he said. “It's not a finger-pointing thing, it's kid stuff, and it happened -- and we'd like to see it not happen again."
According to the church both boys' families attend, Beau is making good progress, but he is expected to be in the hospital at Harborview for the next four to six weeks.
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