Two Women Injured While Trying To Fry Turkey

NEW YORK -- Two women, who were badly burned as they tried to deep-fry a Thanksgiving Day turkey, remained hospitalized Friday at a Staten Island burn center.

Elsa Roberts, 56, was listed in fair condition and her daughter, Nicole Roberts, 27, was in serious condition, said Dr. Jerome Finkelstein, director of Staten Island University Hospital Regional Burn Center.

The two women were burned when the turkey fryer overturned, spilling the hot oil on them, the doctor said.

The women were frying the turkey at a home in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.