Goldsboro home (WSOC.com photo) 
 
 Goldsboro home (WSOC.com photo) 
 
 GOLDSBORO, Wayne County - A North Carolina brother and sister are being treated for serious burns after they trying to roast marshmallows indoors in Goldsboro, authorities said. 
 
 The 8- and 12-year-olds were using rubbing alcohol to light a flame, but the chemical caused the fire to spread quickly. 
 
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 Their mother used a water bottle to douse her daughter. 
 
 Her son had already run outside, where neighbors stepped in to help. 
 
 Another sibling said they have all learned a lesson. 
 
 “I made a promise to myself that I was never going to mess with lighters or fire again because I learned my lesson,” the sibling said. 
 
 Family members said the children suffered burns to their faces and bodies. 
 
 There is no word on their current conditions. ||||| The children thought the fire had died down, but within seconds, two of them were consumed in flames. (Source: WRAL/CNN) 
 
 GOLDSBORO, NC (WRAL/CNN) – A brother and sister are severely burned after attempting to roast marshmallows with rubbing alcohol. 
 
 Montrael Williams says he and his siblings wanted to roast marshmallows on the cold Saturday afternoon, but the experience quickly got out of hand. 
 
 The children used a lighter, a pan and rubbing alcohol to heat the marshmallows. One of them thought the flame had died down, but within seconds, the 8-year-old and 12-year-old were consumed in flames. 
 
 "The bottle went flying the other way and then the juice or the alcohol went flying toward my brother and sister, and they caught on fire. I didn't catch on fire because I was at the corner of the table,” Montrael said. 
 
 The children’s mother Lashandra Moore saw her daughter was on fire and ran to help her but didn’t realize her son was outside, also on fire. 
 
 Thankfully, a neighbor saw the boy and stopped to help, but his injuries were already severe. 
 
 "Jaylen's eyes got burned so bad they were blue. They were blue and gray, and he couldn't see,” Moore said. 
 
 Still, the mother is relieved her children are alive. 
 
 Montrael says he’s learned a hard and scary lesson from the incident. 
 
 "My dad, he was talking to me in the family room about how I shouldn't have been messing with fire. When we were walking out of the hospital getting ready to come back here, I made a promise to myself that I was never going to mess with lighters or fire again because I learned my lesson,” he said. 
 
 Copyright 2017 WRAL via CNN. All rights reserved. ||||| Two North Carolina children were airlifted to a local hospital after an attempt at roasting marshmallows left them with severe burns, PEOPLE confirms. 
 
 The brother and sister used a lighter, a pan and rubbing alcohol to heat the marshmallows on Saturday in their Goldsboro home, but things soon got out of hand when the flame grew and consumed the kids, WBRC reports. 
 
 “The bottle went flying the other way and then the juice, or the alcohol went flying toward my brother and sister and they caught on fire,” Montrael Williams said of his siblings. “I didn’t catch on fire because I was at the corner of the table.” 
 
 The children were airlifted to the Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill, a Goldsboro Fire Department spokesman tells PEOPLE. 
 
 The incident is under investigation, a Goldsboro Police Department spokeswoman tells PEOPLE. The spokeswoman says that the three children were in the kitchen trying to roast marshmallows and “something got in the way” of the flame, causing “the fire to get out of hand.” 
 
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 The kids’ mother, Lashandra Moore, said spoke through tears as she spoke of helping her daughter. 
 
 “When I turned and looked I just saw my daughter, she was on fire,” Moore told KTRK. Meanwhile, her son had made his way outside where a neighbor was helping the burned boy. 
 
 “Jaylen’s eyes were burned so badly, they were blue and gray. And he couldn’t see,” Moore said. 
 
 Authorities gave few details about the incident, with the spokeswoman noting only that the injured children are 8 and 12 years old. 
 
 The children remained in the hospital on Monday, the spokeswoman says. And family members are waiting for updates on the children’s recovery. 
 
 Now, Williams said he’s learned his lesson as a result of the incident. 
 
 “I made a promise to myself that I was never going to mess with lighters or fire again,” he told KTRK.
– A North Carolina brother and sister, 8 and 12, wanted to roast marshmallows over the weekend but instead ended up in the hospital with severe burns. The children, along with one other sibling, tried to use a lighter, pan, and rubbing alcohol to heat the marshmallows when things went very wrong. "The bottle went flying the other way and then the juice or the alcohol went flying toward my brother and sister, and they caught on fire," the uninjured sibling, who was standing farther away, tells WBRC. A Goldsboro Police Department spokesperson tells People that "something got in the way" of the flame and caused "the fire to get out of hand." The kids' mom, Lashandra Moore, ran to help when she saw her daughter on fire; her son was also on fire outside, and a neighbor saw him and helped. Both were airlifted to a local hospital, and were still hospitalized as of Monday with burns to their faces and bodies, per WSOC. WRAL explains that rubbing alcohol burns clear, so the children may not have realized there was a flame.