Their vacation ended with two kids on fire and a helicopter ride to the hospital. The Petersen family from Chandler was roasting marshmallows at their condo in Oceanside when the tabletop fireplace on the table, a product called the FlikrFire, started shooting fireballs. Jon Petersen said a huge fireball came out of it and lit his son up “like a torch.” Two of the children caught fire and both were flown to the hospital. Eight-year-old Brock took the worst of it with second-degree burns to his face, neck and arms, and he spent 19 days in a burn ICU before he started to recover. The trip was their annual family vacation, with beach days and Legoland already behind them. Here’s the part that should make you check your own patio. The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a stop-use warning on FlikrFire tabletop fireplaces in December 2024, about 18 months before the Petersens’ trip, after flame jetting killed an elderly couple and caused third and fourth degree burns in at least thr...