Girl Hurt in Mexico Airlifted to Burn Unit : Tragedy: Eight members of La Puente family died in explosion inside motor home.

Rosy Garcia, the 14-year-old La Puente girl badly burned in an explosion and fire that gutted her family’s motor home during a Mexican vacation, was airlifted Wednesday from Mexico to a San Fernando Valley hospital as the death toll in the tragedy rose to eight.

The girl suffered third-degree burns over 60% of her body and was listed in critical condition in the burn center at Sherman Oaks Community Hospital, said Dr. Richard Grossman, the center’s director. He said it was too soon to estimate her chances for recovery.

Rosy and her father, Jose Asuncion Garcia, 38, were the only survivors of the explosion that occurred as the large, close-knit family was traveling to the Yucatan Peninsula to fulfill the desire of family matriarch Serafina Quintal to return to the land of her birth.

Quintal, Rosy’s 85-year-old great aunt, was trapped along with seven others Sunday after a tank of propane or butane in the motor home exploded as the family drove near Sabinas Hidalgo, 60 miles south of Laredo, Tex.

Relatives of the Garcia family who returned to the United States told hospital administrators that Gerardo Macias Guerrero, 19, described as the boyfriend of Rosy’s aunt, died in Mexico on Wednesday. Also killed in the blaze were Rosy’s mother, Gina, 34; her brothers, Anthony, 15, Ricardo, 10, Ruben, 8, and Joe, 3, and Gina Garcia’s sister, Maritza Ocampo, 21.

A three-person medical crew and Rosy’s father, who suffered minor injuries, accompanied the girl during the 3 1/2-hour flight from Monterrey in eastern Mexico. She was helicoptered from Los Angeles International Airport to Sherman Oaks.

Rosy graduated last week from Sierra Vista Middle School in La Puente. Principal Bob Twitchell described the honors student, cheerleader and flutist in the school band as an energetic and popular student.