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KELSO, Wash. – A horrible story of New Year's Day hooliganism gone wrong comes to us out of Kelso.

The Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office reports that around 1:30 a.m. a 17-year-old Kelso juvenile boy was hospitalized with serious burns to his chest while attempting to siphon gas from a neighbor's car. The car was parked at 113 Alpha Drive in Kelso.

While siphoning, the teen reportedly lit a cigarette. The gas fumes ignited, and quickly spread to the subject's chest and abdomen.