Grandmother burned in fire pit explosion dies a day before her 59th birthday

PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) - An Arizona grandmother died days after suffering catastrophic burns when her boyfriend allegedly poured gasoline on a fire, causing an explosion.Tammy Dodson and her boyfriend were sitting around a fire pit Sept. 24 with Dodson’s sister, Tara Carl, in their backyard in Prescott Valley. Carl says the fire pit was a smaller, elevated metal pit.As the fire began to dwindle, Carl says her sister’s boyfriend grabbed a gas can and poured it on the fire to try to reignite it. She says this caused an explosion that shot the gas can onto a neighbor’s roof and engulfed Dodson in flames.Dodson spent 10 days intubated at a Phoenix burn center with burns covering her body before she died last Sunday, the day before her 59th birthday.“I’m very angry. She should not have been taken from us the way she was,” Carl said.Victim was a mother, grandmother and healthcare workerDodson was a mother, grandmother and a beloved healthcare worker, her family says. She