10 days before her first birthday a little girl was singing and playing in a friend’s living room. A family friend was watching her because her parents were out of town. This living room was on the smaller side but had a gas fireplace at the center. Because of the cold weather, the fireplace had been turned on. The little girl suddenly tripped falling right towards the hot fireplace. She stuck her hands out on the glass fireplace door reacting to her tumble. Her tiny hands had touched the glass just long enough for a severe burn reaction. Once the parents were made aware, the little girl was rushed to the emergency room. Her hands were red, swollen and blisters started to appear and it became worse. They wrapped her tiny hands in bandages, and it became clear the importance that fireplace safety holds. Fireplaces are at an easily accessible height to kids and many fireplaces don’t have proper screens in place for protection. Kids around fireplaces come with their own set of dangerous possibilities. Even after the fireplace is turned off it still continues to stay hot. In fact, the glass surface of a gas fireplace can get up to between 500-1,000 degrees and that temperature can cause third-degree burns in less than a second. It would be beneficial to contact the manufacturer to get your own safety screen, further preventing your child or another child’s potential injury. This keeps everyone at a safer distance from possible accidents.