A mum’s new rattan garden furniture set randomly burst into flames and set fire to her home.
Kirsty Gawne, 27, from Stockbridge Village, was upstairs in her two-bedroom house on Tuesday, July 19, when she smelt what she thought was a barbecue. She came downstairs with her dirty washing and noticed her seven-month-old bulldog was under her feet.
When she turned around she saw flames coming from her window and a huge plume of smoke from where her new rattan garden sofa set was. Kirsty said she “panicked” and ran to get her four-year-old son and dog out of the house, where she screamed for help, reports the Daily Mirror.
