NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  -- An 8-year old boy was fighting for his life, after he was rushed to a hospital with burns all over his body, police said.

The boy was attending a party at a Manhattan pediatric dental office at 236 East 36 street when he apparently caught on fire from a grill about 9 p.m. Friday.

"She was making it fun for them, and had a little grill, you know, lighting up some of the grill and then something happened and he caught on fire. It was an accident," a witness tells 1010 WINS Kathleen Maloney.

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The child is in critical condition at Cornell Medical Center with reports of burns to over 70 percent of his body.

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