TRIMONT, Minn. (KARE) – Getting through winter is not always easy, but several products promise to make it more bearable.
There are thousands of options when it comes to rechargeable apparel like vests, pants, socks and insoles, that are marketed as the perfect products to keep you warm.
“Don’t do it,” Mikaela Morris said.
Mikaela and Tyler Morris still remember the smell of burning flesh from days ago.
“I was just outside on the ice and it just felt like a knife stabbed me in my heel,” Tyler Morris said. “It started getting super, super hot. And I started like freaking out and there was white smoke just billowing out of my boot.”
Tyler Morris says the rechargeable insole he was wearing, which was not turned on at the time, exploded inside his shoe.
The insoles, sold by the company iHeat, which is based in China, are no longer available on Amazon.
“The insole came out in pieces. I crawled into the fish house, and we were looking at it, and we thought, we were thinking that part of my sock and stuff was melted to my skin and then we realized that that was my skin,” Tyler Morris said.
He got second and third-degree burns.
Tyler Morris lost feeling in some parts of his right foot and was taken to a burn center where he was told he might need skin grafts.
“This happens apparently all the time. In fact, when we got to Hennepin County, the doctor there told us that I was the third person she had seen for this this week,” he said.
Tyler Morris is now left with injuries he is not sure how long will take to heal.
The couple has a warning for others: do your research before buying.
“Because not only could it have been his foot, it could have been his hand. It could have been his, if he had socks on, it could have been his whole leg,” Mikaela Morris said.
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