My son caught on fire doing a viral stunt — I tried to put it out with my bare hands

Another internet challenge, another casualty.

Tiffany Crutcher, an Alabama mom, rescued her teen son, Dzhyan, with her bare hands after he became engulfed in a blaze during a viral social media challenge that involved people dousing an open flame with alcohol.

“He went into the bathroom and he took a candle and poured alcohol onto it. It exploded onto him, catching him on fire. I was there immediately. I heard the explosion,” the mother shared with Kennedy News & Media.

Unfortunately, the shocking stunt didn’t turn out well for the 13-year-old, who suffered injuries on 45% of his body from the waist up, with third- and second-degree burns on his stomach, chest, face and neck.

Tiffany, 34, recalled her son running out of the bathroom, panicking.

“I tried to put him out with my hands at first,” she said. “We were taught to stop, drop and roll, so I tried that — and it didn’t work.”

Eventually, her youngest child, Zaelyn, 12, handed her a fire extinguisher, which she used to put out the flames.

“He was completely on fire from the waist up,” Tiffany revealed. “It was terrifying.”

Afterward, Tiffany barely recognized her son.

“His face looked really bad to me — his face was so swollen,” she recalled to Kennedy News. “It was awful. I was in shock.”

“His arms were the worst. They were burned third-degree, full thickness all the way around and down both arms,” she continued.

Doctors had to cut incisions along the child’s arms to allow circulation from the swelling.

The mother of three remembered setting candles around the house because a storm was approaching the area that could knock out their power.

However, that’s when her son took it as an opportunity to pursue the life-threatening stunt.

After Dzhyan snagged a lit candle, he found alcohol in a bathroom cabinet and sparked the flames.

“He said that he was just experimenting; he didn’t know that it would explode,” Tiffany said. “He’s into science — he didn’t know it would do that. He just wanted to see what it would do.”

Investigators confirmed Dzhyan’s participation in the dangerous social media challenge.

“When the trend of kids holding their breath was going viral, I warned them not to do anything that would hurt them,” Tiffany said. “I was surprised that he tried it.

“I tell them they can’t try everything. Some stuff is dangerous and you have to be aware,” his mother added.

Tiffany’s son spent one month in the hospital and has received four skin grafts.

With two more years before complete recovery, Dzhyan must go to a burn clinic and therapy for treatment, and he is learning how to use his hands and arms again.

“The pain from it and going through the therapy upsets him because he knows he has a long road to recovery,” Tiffany said.

She also admitted that she isn’t hard on her 13-year-old after the incident, as “kids make mistakes and he is beating himself up about it.”

“He is traumatized — he gets in moods and says he doesn’t know why he did it,” she said.

The mom, who lives in Athens, Alabama, encouraged other parents to open up to their kids about the dangers of social media challenges.

“I talk to them and tell them not to try stuff just because they’ve seen someone else do it,” she urged.

Many parents are facing the worst for their children due to popular but potentially harmful social media trends like the “Benadryl Challenge” and the “Choking Challenge.”

Heartbroken parents of a Australian teen girl lost their daughter after she inhaled dangerous chemicals from a deodorant can, otherwise known as “chroming.”

Esra Haynes, a high school student, went into cardiac arrest and sustained irreparable brain damage after taking part in “chroming” while at a friend’s sleepover on March 31.

“They’re asking us to bring a family, friends to say goodbye to our 13-year-old daughter. It was a very, very difficult thing to do to such a young soul,” her father told “A Current Affair.”