WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A little girl badly burned when a gas can exploded outside her family's north Charlotte home more than a year ago will be back in surgery Thursday.
Emily Hinton and her family will head to Winston-Salem in the morning for the five-hour-long surgery.
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She will remain in the hospital for at least a couple weeks to recover.
Surgeons will be using a full thickness graft and release her neck scars again, as well as some places on her left arm and hand.
Emily has had several surgeries since the accident in September 2015.
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