A 10-year-old boy is being treated at a Saskatoon hospital, after being burned by the flames of a fire pit.

On Friday, paramedics were called to a property in the RM of Shellbrook  for a boy suffering from burns to his face and hands.

Parkland Ambulance said the child was standing too close to a fire, that was being lit, when he got burned.

The boy is recovering at Royal University Hospital.