By AARON PARSEGHIAN

Firefighters in Avon, Massachusetts are warning residents about the dangers of tabletop fire pits after one exploded inside a home Thursday night, leaving a person with third-degree burns across their body.

Assistant Fire Chief Brad Cronin said the victim was using isopropyl alcohol to ignite the small device when it erupted in flames, burning at temperatures around 1,600 degrees. The fire pit used liquid fuel and a cotton wick; a combination Cronin described as inherently dangerous.

"These have been increasingly more popular from online retailers or mercantile stores," Cronin said. "Having an open flame device and a pouring of liquid into something that's already hot or maybe ignited just creates a very high fire risk. We'd caution anybody to not use this type of pr

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