‘I screamed’: Woman, toddler suffer 3rd-degree burns from charcoal buried in sand

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s a cautionary tale for beachgoers: a Hillsborough County mother said her 2-year-old son suffered a serious burn, and it wasn’t a sunburn.

Taiji Goodson said her son, Armon, stepped on a hot piece of charcoal on Coquina Beach and was rushed to a local hospital.

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“I screamed with him,” Goodson explained. “I cried with him.”

“I felt like I was finna pass out,” she continued. “I was telling my sister we need to get to the car.”…

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