B’s Coffee owner recovering from burns

By Sherrie Peif/The Johnstown Breeze



EATON – It takes just one sentence for Sabrina and Brett Abernathy to recap how they spent their summer: 46 days in the hospital, 29 days in a long-term acute care facility, and 15 days in a long-term rehabilitation facility.

Now that Brett is home four months after the carburetor on his 1960 DeSoto Adventurer backfired, sending a 7-foot ball of fire into the air and leaving 32 percent of Brett’s body with second- and third-degree burns, they look back on the time as a testament to prayer, their marriage and their children.