Imperial Beach mother burned in apartment fire gets second chance at life

Imperial Beach mother burned in apartment fire gets second chance at life

A mother was still in the hospital Tuesday after she survived being burned in a kitchen explosion in Imperial Beach last week. Pointing to her bandaged head and neck, Diana Hernandez says the worst of her burn wounds were suffered on her ear, neck and chest. She is now forever scarred after surviving a fire that gutted her apartment on Georgia Street. Hernandez says she started cooking breakfast for her kids just before 7 a.m. on Nov. 12. When s…