‘Candles? Never again,’ says a flat fire victim
Friday 10th September 2010, 11:30AM BST.
A COUPLE had a lucky escape when a candle started a blaze in their flat.
Jessica Ferbrache, 19, was spending a romantic evening with boyfriend Waleed Ata, 24. She lit a small candle on top of the television but forgot to put it out.
The fire started to spread at about 2.30am yesterday at the couple’s flat in Port Vase, near Vauvert. They were awoken by the fire alarm going off.
‘It does sometimes go off for normal things, like burnt toast, so at first we didn’t worry,’ said Miss Ferbrache. ‘But then we started to notice the smoke.’
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It’s great news that no one was badly hurt in this fire but where they never told do not place anything on top of TVs????
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Whilst I am very pleased that this couple are ok, her quote mentioning that the fire alarm goes off for different things such as burnt toast so they initially didn’t worry!!! Who’s going to be burning toast at 2:30 in the morning?!!!!
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come on eh, who is stupid enough to sit a candle on their TV, i mean no common sense eh!
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