A 12-year-old girl from Philadelphia suffered second-degree burns when her iPhone 5c spontaneously burst into flames in her back pocket.
Alexis Rolon says she was walking to school Friday morning when she heard a sizzling sound coming from her smartphone tucked in the rear pocket of her jeans.
The 12-year-old then saw smoke wafting from the device, and almost immediately she felt sharp pain.
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Scorched: Alexis Rolon's iPhone 5c partially melted when she says the device burst into
The combustion damage the interior of the smartphone, as well as the exterior
New toy: Alexis, 12, got the phone as a gift from her parents in November 2014
'I felt it burning, I took it out - it was on fire so I stepped on it to take out the fire,' Alexis told the station 6abc.
The heat was so strong that the burning phone scorched a hole through Alexis' pocket and seared her buttocks, leaving her with second-degree burns.
The spontaneous combustion melted the lower half of the iPhone's white frame and cooked the insides of the device.
Alexis continued on to Aloysius L. FitzPatrick School to get help. A nurse there contacted the girl's mother, Roselly Rolon, who rushed over and took the injured 12-year-old to Nazareth Hospital.
Alexis’ parents bought her the phone in November to keep in touch with her and her way to and from school.
‘We depend on these phones. And the same phone that I'm depending on is gonna burn my daughter,’ Roselly Rolon told NBC10. ‘Thank God it wasn't her face.’
Alexis said she had never encountered any problems with the iPhone 5c until Friday.
Searing heat: The phone was so hot it burned a hole in Rolon's back pocket as she was walking to school
Inflamed: Doctors said the 12-year-old sustained second-degree burns in the iPhone fire
Despite her painful experience, she is not ready to give up on the tech giant’s popular gadgets.
'I like the iPhone, but I don't want that one anymore,' she said of the iPhone 5s. 'I want a different one.'
While Apple representatives wold not comment on Alexis Rolon's complaint, this is not the first spontaneous combustion involving an iPhone,
In January 2014, a middle-school student from Maine sustained second-degree burns when an iPhone 5c burst into flames in her pocket.
Then last November, a man in Arizona suffered burns from iPhone 6 under similar circumstances.
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