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Police search family home of boys whose sunburns were blamed on daycare

July 30, 2015

Vinita police served a search warrant Thursday to allow officers access to a family home of two children who sustained second and third-degree burns after being sunburned during a daycare field trip last week.

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The children's mother claimed the burns occurred because the daycare staff did not apply sunscreen to her sons, 5 and 7.

>> Click here to see images of the sunburns. (WARNING: GRAPHIC)

The boys are now recovering at a Texas medical center.

BREAKING: Vinita Police serving search warrant at a relative of the two sunburned boys' home. The chief said they're...

Posted by FOX23 Morgan Downing on Thursday, July 30, 2015

Police told FOX23 officers are searching the boys' grandparents' home for an ointment that was applied to the burns.

Officials said they are concerned the ingredients of the ointment may have caused the blisters.

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