February 3, 2024

HAMILTON (Mercer) – A medical helicopter was called out Saturday evening (Feb. 3, 2024) after a man was badly burned in what was reported to be some kind of fire pit accident. Hamilton firefighters and EMS personnel were initially dispatched to an address on Lehigh Avenue about 8:25 p.m. for a reported house fire. They arrived to find there was no house fire but instead a man who had been badly burned from what was said to be a backyard fire pit. A medical helicopter landed at a field behind Nottingham High School and the patient was flown to the burn unit at Temple University Medical Center in Philadelphia. No other details are available at this time.