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At age 6, Terry McCarty's older brothers accidentally kicked a lit bowl of kerosene toward him, wrapping McCarty in fire and burning 73 percent of his skin

He spent the following year in the hospital, undergoing surgeries and burn treatments. About 15 years later, he became a volunteer firefighter

McCarty, now age 39, looks back on the accident that scarred him for life with nothing but love for his brothers and appreciation for the fire academy training that healed deeply buried trauma

Editor's Note: Warning that this article contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some readers.

Terry McCarty has a distinct memory from age 6, but to this day, he doesn’t actually know whether it really happened or if he hallucinated it. He’ll never truly find a way to verify th

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