If you have been wondering where Fox 17 News Anchor Michele DeSelms has been for the last couple weeks, she has been recovering from a severe burn.

Veteran anchorwoman Michele DeSelms at Fox 17 was relaxing beside a cozy campfire. In the next, she was falling into it.

“Like a snow angel,” she remembers. “My arms are waving like this out to my side, and suddenly I’m sitting in the fire,” trapped for an instant that seemed to never end, “like a turtle on my back.”

She emerged with second and nearly third-degree burns that cover the lower third of her back. Her left foot incurred the worst damage, when prior to falling into the inferno, she stepped onto a red-hot grate that had just been removed from atop the firepit. It seared the flesh on her foot and eventually created a massive hole in her arch. Read On

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