Burn victim’s amazing recovery after freak wildfire during marathon
On a sweltering September day in 2011, Turia Pitt was blasting Tupac Shakur and running a 62 mile ultra-marathon in the Australian Outback when the unthinkable happened— flames from a “freak firestorm” melted her face and ravaged 65% of her body.
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Pitt would need to wait four hours before she was rescued and years before a full recovery but she is finally healthy and thanking the men and women from a skin-graft donor facility in Edison, NJ who coordinated the tissue donations that saved her life.
“It’s my way of saying thank you to all of you and all of America for the role that you played in my rehabilitation,” Pitt said to the employees of the Musculoskeletal Transplant Facility Wednesday morning.
The former model recounted the harrowing day that changed her life forever.
She was in the “middle of nowhere,” deep in the Australian Outback competing in an ultra-marathon when she saw a “wall of flames” and “desperately” ran away.
“When the fire finally caught me I remember looking down at my hands and arms and they were both ablaze. I was just screaming with terror.”
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