In 2015, four year old Chloe Garcia and her family were doing what they did every Halloween, lighting the holiday pumpkin.
But this time was different, tragically different. There was a flash fire that burned her face, neck and arm. She spent weeks in intensive care.
“She had 12 surgeries at CHKD and she had about 8 or 9 surgeries at Shriners hospital in Ohio,” said her mom Melanie Reyes.
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Chloe`s Story
l went along with the family to the Shriners Children’s hospital in Cincinnati where Chloe went for additional treatment a year later.
“The hospital was pretty tough just seeing how her skin looked the scraping they did,” Reyes told me in 2016.
I watched as they custom made a mask for the little girl, her only hope to keep the scars from distorting her facial features.
“My hope is that she is a normal little girl and one day this is just a bad nightmare gone away,” Reyes told me in Cincinnati.