Little kid burned in South End explosion when somebody pours lighter fluid on lit barbecue

This was a terrible accident, and I hope that poor little girl is OK but I have to wonder why those fire pits are sold in the city if they are illegal.

I have a different problem with them - a neighbor who seems to think he's out camping in his postage stamp yard, with a roaring fire and 3 or 4 of those torches. The smoke pours into my house and yard every weekend (when it's not raining - I'm actually relieved when it rains on the weekends) from about 4 pm to midnight. I told him that one night when it was especially bad, but he just acted like he couldn't understand where the smoke was coming from.

What would you do? Think the police would enforce the law if I complained?

It's absolutely awful what happened to the kid. I assume the other person(s) who were involved are emotionally devastated, too.

But I'm not sure anything can be done to completely eliminate this sort of tragic incident. We can do all the PSAs we want, mandate lots of warnings, etc. That will have some positive effect overall. But in the end, lots of people are still going to do stupid-sounding things, and there will be occasional tragedy.