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CommentsThree teenagers were injured in the Yelm area early Saturday morning after they attempted to make a bomb using fireworks and a plastic bag, according to S.E. Thurston Fire & EMS.
Also according to the fire district:
The bag exploded as one of the teens attempted to insert a fuse. The 15-year-old boy who was holding the bag suffered severe injuries to his face, hands and chest. He was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
The other two teens suffered facial injuries and hearing loss. Both were taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. Police weren’t releasing the teens’ names Saturday.
The incident is the latest of several in which Yelm-area youths have been injured in the past week.
“It has been horrible. That was the fifth airlift since Tuesday,” S.E. Thurston Fire & EMS Fire Chief Rita Hutcheson said Saturday.
On Thursday morning, twin 9-year-old Yelm girls suffered smoke inhalation and were flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center after their house burned. One had second-degree burns on one of her arms, Hutcheson said. Their stepfather pulled them from the burning house and was credited with saving their lives.
“I talked to their father several hours after they were up there, and he said they were doing much better,” she said, adding that they were expected to be in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
On Tuesday morning, two 16-year-old girls were injured when the car they were in crossed the center line and collided with a truck in Yelm, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Troopers said Skye Calhoun was driving too fast for the wet road conditions when her northbound 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass drifted into the southbound lane of Morris Road and collided with a 2003 GMC box-style truck. Calhoun and her passenger, Alexandria Bachmeier, both of Yelm, were flown by helicopter to Harborview.
Hutcheson said it was her understanding that Calhoun had suffered broken bones and “a fairly significant head injury,” while Bachmeier had suffered primarily broken bones.
A nursing supervisor said Bachmeier was in stable condition Saturday. She said she couldn’t release details about Calhoun’s condition.
Brian Sandford: 360-754-5425
bsandford@theolympian.com
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