A 12-year-old girl died Saturday from burns she received when her Cousin Itt Halloween wig caught on fire as she brushed past a pumpkin with a candle in it.
The flames spread to the rest of Erin Christine Jenkins' costume as she was trick-or-treating Friday. A man and woman who lived in the home where the fire occurred were burned on their hands and arms as they rolled her on the ground.The long wig and costume of "The Addams Family" television character "just went up like match," said Philip Hightower, fire marshal in Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas.
The girl was burned over 90 percent of her body and airlifted to a Dallas hospital, where she died.