🚨 “IT WAS FRIED INSTANTLY”: Witness’s Chilling Description of the Terrifying Incident ⚡
Posted by Team - June 26, 2026
An 82-year-old mother was left with severe burns down to “the muscle and the bone” after she fell asleep in a metal chair by a pool while tanning, according to her daughter.
Betty Lou Summer was at the Johnson Ranch community pool in San Tan Valley on June 11 when an hour in the Arizona sun turned into a life-threatening emergency after she fell asleep.
Bystanders found her unconscious, suffering from a severe heat stroke and covered in third-degree burns.
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Arizona woman Betty Lou Summer, 82, suffered third-degree burns after she fell asleep in a metal chair while tanning by the pool.GoFundMe
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Summer, of Tan Valley, suffered burns on 30% of her body.Courtesy Michelle Gabbert
“The whole front of her body, all the way down to basically the muscle and the bone, is burned. And it’s significant,” Summer’s daughter, Michelle Gabbert, told AZ Family.
Summer was covered in wet towels and moved into the shade before paramedics rushed her to the Valleywise Burn Center, where doctors also diagnosed her with liver and kidney damage and severe shock.
The burns covered approximately 30% of her body and did not just come from the sun, but any parts of her body touching the metal chair.
