VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Little Chloe Garcia plays a game on her iPad and occasionally looks out the window of the American Airlines jet to see the clouds whizzing by.
The 5-year old preschooler is calm and well-behaved on the trip from Norfolk to Cincinnati with her mother and grandmother. You'd never know that she’s going through a tremendous struggle, a horrible event that continues to affect her and her family. But when she looks up and you see her tiny little face, with raised, red scars covering much of it, you realize she’s been through a lot.
In October 2015, Chloe and her family were lighting their Halloween pumpkin, something they do every year, but this time something went terribly wrong. The pumpkin exploded and burned Chloe's face, neck and arm. She was rushed to the hospital and spent weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk.
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As her burns started to heal, doctors told the family her only chance of not being disfigured permanently from the accident was to get a plastic compression mask. The closest place that makes these special masks is the Shriner’s Hospital for children in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Can her scars be healed?
Tonight on NewsChannel 3 at 11, join Anchor Beverly Kidd on Chloe's journey to Ohio.
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