Light fitting catches fire
Tuesday 12th August 2008, 11:50AM BST.
Quick-thinking Steven Myatt grabbed wet towels and hurled them over a burning lampshade in his Telford home after clothes accidentally thrown on a light fitting caught fire.Mr Myatt was at home in Oakengates when his four-year-old son Kyle came from his bedroom upstairs to say he could not see in his room.
When Mr Myatt, 26, went up to the bedroom in Kensington Way and opened the door at about 8pm, the room was full of thick smoke.
He grabbed Kyle and his other son, Anton, two, who was in the room, and took them downstairs before going back to tackle the fire.
His fiancee Stacey Whitehouse, 22, who was also at home, said today: “My partner was just sat downstairs on the sofa. Our four-year-old can turn on lights. He must have turned on the light and thrown the item of clothing on the lampshade.
“The lampshade started smoking. He didn’t come out of the room until it was thick with smoke. He was scared as he didn’t know what he had done.
“He told his dad he couldn’t see in his bedroom. When the door opened it activated the alarm.”
Mr Myatt took the children downstairs and by the time he had got back upstairs the lampshade had burst into flames.
Miss Whitehouse said her fiance used wet towels to put out the flames. “It has scared all of us a lot,” she said.
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