Emergency: The boy was taken to Furness General Hospital
EMERGENCY services were called to a property in Dalton after receiving reports a 14-year-old boy had been burned.
Fire crews, police officers and paramedics rushed to St Helen's Hill, in Dalton, at 3.20pm today responding to claims a teenage boy's clothes had set alight.
It was later confirmed the teen had been scalded was taken to Furness General Hospital by paramedics to receive treatment.
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