A US woman's body caught alight after she used an off-brand hand sanitiser and lit a candle in her home

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Kate Wise, a mother of three, is in an intensive care unit at a local hospital in Austin, according to acreated by her best friend, Kathryn Bonesteel. The fundraiser, which is seeking donations to help for Wise's medical costs and to recover from the damage from the fire, said Wise was preparing to watch a movie with her children before she put on the hand sanitizer.

"Because of the hand sanitizer, it just lit my whole ... everywhere," Wise said."I had hand sanitizer on my hand, it just lit my hand with fire." "What appears to have happened is she used hand sanitiser and then went to light a candle — and hand sanitizer is flammable," the spokesperson said. "Like, you just being up in flames so I think that part kind of killed me just because it's something I never wanted them to have to go through," she said.

 

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