A family suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage to their home in a terrifying fire allegedly caused by - a vacuum cleaner.
Denise Graovac's 24-year-old daughter Sophie, who has autism, was home alone earlier this month (November 18) when she heard an "explosion".
She rushed to the garage at the home in Thames Ditton, Surrey to see what was happening - and found there were "flames and smoke everywhere".
Sophie immediately dialled 999 and the local fire brigade arrived - but not before the fire wreaked catastrophic damage.
Denise, who is retired, claims firefighters informed her that the re-chargeable lithium battery in her handheld vacuum had likely exploded.
Denise Graovac's 24-year-old daughter Sophie, who has autism, was home alone earlier this month (November 18) when she heard an "explosion".
She rushed to the garage at the home in Thames Ditton, Surrey to see what was happening - and found there were "flames and smoke everywhere".
Sophie immediately dialled 999 and the local fire brigade arrived - but not before the fire wreaked catastrophic damage.
Denise, who is retired, claims firefighters informed her that the re-chargeable lithium battery in her handheld vacuum had likely exploded.
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00:30Yeah, that'd be lovely, yeah, you can do it in pleasure then, can't it?
00:50Well, I was waiting for you, I was waiting for you for a while
00:54And in fact, my enemy's coming, he's going,
00:55He's here, so come on!
00:57The Lansley Leak, she's British, your Parliament
00:59They all spent hours on the road
01:01Ouch, yeah!
01:14Right, so I'm going to make now for you a fine,
01:16We know the five-star seat man went out for the boxes
01:18Yeah
01:19The side of the seat was smashed, I can tell you that
01:21Can you tell me?
01:22Yeah
01:24He's burned that side, which went up there to protect it
01:27So I don't scratch that
01:28OK
01:29We know it's focused there, and we can see the burn's gone up
01:31Yeah
01:32So Matt will photograph it, and then we'll pick it apart to see
01:36OK
01:38And we'll cut the water, put some of it off,
01:41Just bring this down
01:43OK
01:47Yeah, yeah
01:50No, no, it's got to be out here
01:52Yeah
01:53I'm just going to stop
01:55OK, just speak to Matt, I'll put him with you really shortly
01:58And then, I think she'll just face the camera now
02:01And she'll put it out for you
02:03I'll see you later
02:05Matt, I'm here to pass you on this stuff
02:07You see, I've got loads
02:09On Monday
02:10I'm in, I'm in as well
02:12Yeah, we'll help you out