A couple perished in their home alongside their dogs in a fire caused by an e-bike battery. Natasha Johnson-Mall, 27, and her boyfriend Karlo Bogdan, 24, "didn't have a chance" to escape when the blaze roared through their maisonette in Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry. An e-bike was in the corridor of the home.
The battery ignited in the early hours of November 8, causing a fast-developing fire which firefighters said could only flow straight up the stairs and into the bedroom, through an open door.
Dell Haughton, a firefighter who attended the blaze said it was "one of the worst" he'd ever seen, and on approach, he couldn't even see the house which was on fire because the smoke was so thick.
The battery ignited in the early hours of November 8, causing a fast-developing fire which firefighters said could only flow straight up the stairs and into the bedroom, through an open door.
Dell Haughton, a firefighter who attended the blaze said it was "one of the worst" he'd ever seen, and on approach, he couldn't even see the house which was on fire because the smoke was so thick.
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