LONG BEACH, Calif. - Parents of children in the ICU are warning others about the dangers of holiday toys that use lithium batteries.
16-month-old Evangaline Joy is recovering at a hospital in Long Beach after a lithium – or "button" – battery severely burned the little girl’s esophagus.On December 1st, Kristin Kientz says "Evie" was watching her 4-year-old big sister play with a highly-rated Amazon drawing board at their home in Redondo Beach, when the toy fell and the button battery popped out of its locking mechanism.
Kientz realized her daughter had swallowed it and immediately called 911.Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter.