MuskogeePhoenix.com, Muskogee, OK

June 12, 2009

Burned firefighter goes home from hospital


OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Iowa Tribe firefighter who was seriously burned while fighting a wildfire in April has gone home after two months and two days in an Oklahoma City hospital.



Sixty-year-old David Milby was burned over 26 percent of his body and had second- and third-degree burns to his face, arms and back.



He was released from the hospital Thursday.



Milby was burned near Wellston when he and partner Jeff Bayhylle became stuck in a field and were trapped by flames that blew over them in their brush rig.



Bayhylle was treated and released from the hospital that day.



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Information from: The Oklahoman, http://www.newsok.com