AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado man is raising awareness about the dangers of burns after a car repair accident left him severely injured, leading to over a dozen surgeries and a week in a medically induced coma.

Garan Shaw spent months at UCHealth’s Burn and Frostbite Center in Aurora, where doctors performed numerous surgeries to help heal his skin after about 25% of his body was burned last spring.

“Basically, it backfired, which caused everything in that vicinity to ignite,” Shaw said.

A self-described jack-of-all-trades, Shaw is always working on something around his hometown of Durango. In April 2024, he was helping a friend repair an old car when a disconnected line sprayed fuel onto his body, and he caught fire. • Garan Shaw takes a selfie after suffering severe burns in Apr

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