Great story! Great Kid! Stony Point in Round Rock Texas!

Eric Bakos

Sidelined: Eric Bakos, who suffered burns on 65 percent of his body in December, joins his former Stony Point teammates at the spring football game. Bakos had hoped to play football and basketball as a senior but can't do either.

"The heat was just so intense. Everything was just fire," Misty Bakos said. "The patio. The front door. The railing of stairs we needed to get down."

Eric Bakos - called by Stony Point football coach Craig Chessher "one of the best maneuvering athletes on the field" - made it through the opening without suffering any burns, but then a fiery piece of debris caught hold of his leg and sent him sprawling, bare-chested, onto the baking concrete.

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