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Mother of 'fire challenge' victim: She was 'in flames from her knees to her hair': https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-spea.... Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos:    / @daviddolan2567   When Brandi Owens saw her daughter, Timiyah, running toward her engulfed in flames, she shut down. "I almost just folded. I almost just fell apart. I almost really just lost my mind, looking at my baby on fire," Owens told ABC News. "Seeing her in flames from her knees to her hair, I just went into a deep shock. I panicked, I was hysterical. Oh God, I really hate remembering that day." It's been a little more than a week since Timiyah Landers was burned over 50 percent of her body while attempting the "fire challenge" she reportedly had seen on YouTube. Covered almost head to toe in heavy gauze bandages, the 12-year-old has been relying on a feeding tube and a respirator as doctors treat the second- and third-degree burns that cover 50 percent of her body. "She has opened her eyes, she has told me she loved me," Owens said. "She can't talk, but I read her lips. I asked her if she was comfortable, she shook her head yes. I asked her if she was in pain, she shook her head no. So she does respond with head movements." Owens said Timiyah can't yet tell her what happened that Friday. She and her two longtime friends had been having pancakes in the kitchen with Owens and her fiancé, Owens said, and then went to play. Owens said she went upstairs to lie down and "dozed off for maybe 15, 20 minutes." "Then I heard some kind of pop. I asked my fiance, 'What was that?' Next thing I know, my daughter is running down the hallway yelling 'Help me!' She was on fire from her knees to her head. I panicked. I screamed, 'My baby!'" Owens said. Her fiance sprayed Timiyah down, Owens said, and "I began to rip the clothes off her. I burnt my hands in the process of ripping her clothes off while he was spraying her down with cold water." Now, instead of getting ready to go back to school, Timiyah is undergoing multiple operations at the Children's Hospital of Michigan to remove her severely burned skin, her mother said. Her family is left wondering how their daughter - a "very outgoing, very outspoken" girl who loves volleyball and was a "little mother" to her classmates -- came to set herself on fire. And Timiyah's family is far from alone: a number of children have been seriously injured or died after attempting dangerous social media "challenges" involving boiling water, detergent pods, bath salts and fire, among others. "For kids today, it's all about attention, the immediate gratification, and how do we become internet famous?" Sue Scheff, a family therapist and the author of "Shame Nation," told ABC News. "Everyone wants that immediate gratification without thinking about the long-term ramifications, especially because their minds are not mature enough to think about those." Scheff said children and teens are also highly susceptible to peer pressure, and it starts earlier than most parents realize. "It's something that as young people get older, they're less likely to do," Scheff said. "We're seeing the tweens to the 14 and 15-year-olds doing this #Mother, #fire, #challenge, #victim, #She, #flames, #from, #knees, #hair #Business, #Governmentandpolitics, #Tradeagreements, #Tradepolicy, #Internationaltrade, #Economy, #Economicpolicy, #Governmentbusinessandfinance, #Governmentpolicy, #Internationalagreements, #Internationalrelations, #Freetrade, #DonaldTrump, #AndresManu, #politicsnews, #electionnews, #politicalnews, #politicalnewsarticles