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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J.D. TenNapel, 15, suffered second-degree burns last Friday as he drove an ATV through his family's rural neighborhood warning others of a wildland fire as flames around him rapidly spread and intensified.

J.D.'s injuries were the only ones sustained in the 39-acre blaze that blackened piñon/juniper woodland along Surface Creek Road between Timothy and T75 roads.

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