A teenager from California has suffered serious injuries to his face and hands after a vape exploded, burning through bones and ligaments, the Daily Mail reports.  Fifteen-year-old Aiden Dean Adams was smoking with friends under an overpass near his home in Bakersfield when the nicotine-filled device caught fire when he brought it to his mouth and shards hit him in the face. Aiden walked up the road with a bloody and mangled hand and reached out to catch a hitchhiker who took him home to his shocked parents. They called 911 and an ambulance arrived a few minutes later to take Aiden to the hospital. Doctors spent hours operating on his mangled hands, including repairing a thumb that had been “almost completely severed” and amputating part of his middle and index fingers. It emerged that the boy had been secretly smoking vape since he was ten years old.