Cell phone injures teen

It wasn’t a serious injury but something parents might want to know about. The 16-year-old in California, who’d had the phone in her back pocket, was treated for second-degree burns and shortly thereafter released from the hospital. A fire investigator said the phone in question, whose battery reportedly caused “fist-size flames,” was a Kyocera Wireless 2325, CNET reports. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission “has yet to decide what to do” and – as of this writing – Verizon Wireless, which sold the phone, was trying to get more information from the girl’s family and Kyocera didn’t return the reporter’s calls. CNET adds that “it’s not the first reported instance of a Kycera phone malfunctioning. All of the incidents have raised concerns over the safety of a device jammed into pockets, handbags or pressed against a person’s face.”