Early Tuesday morning, young J.D. TenNapel and his dad James were scheduled to board a flight bound for a Shriners burn center hospital for advanced, specialized care of J.D.'s second-degree burns.

J.D., a 15-year-old quarterback on his school football team, received the injuries during efforts to warn neighbors of a wildland fire outbreak in their Surface Creek Road neighborhood northwest of Cedaredge on June 8.

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