Greyson Pelvin isn’t screaming with pain or misbehaving, but the one-year-old’s father knows his little burned feet are really bothering him.
“I can tell he’s very delicate with his feet. He hasn’t really attempted to stand up, which is rare for him,” Dave Pelvin, of Brampton, said Wednesday.
Greyson was at Gellert Community Park Splash Pad in Georgetown on Monday with his mother, two siblings and some family friends when he wandered onto a scorching hot metal grate.
By the time his mother got to him, both feet and his right hand were badly burned. She immediately rushed him to Georgetown Hospital.
Doctors transferred him to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. He will need to return in a week to change his bandages and see if he needs a skin graft to repair the soles of his feet.
His father posted pictures of his burns on Facebook to serve as a warning for other parents.
Doctors prescribed Greyson morphine to help ease his pain, his dad said.
“We have great family and a great support system ... It’s more about him and trying to get him better,” Dave said. “That’s the most important thing.”
The metal surface that burned Greyson appears to be a set of doors leading underground. Each door has a “Danger — Keep Off” sign.
City officials have since cordoned off the doors.
“We responded immediately by barricading the cover ... with metal barriers and secured the site so no other person can get access to the grate,” Town of Halton Hills spokesman Terry Alyman said.
He said the town’s two other splash pads don’t have metal grates on site.
“This one’s been in operation for 15 years and we’ve never had an incident like this,” Alyman said.
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