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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tim Hanlon

Mum's warning as fake iPhone charger burns her house down 'within minutes'

A mum has told how her family's home was "completely destroyed within minutes" due to a cheap iPhone charger catching fire.

Emma Flaherty, 55, from Worcester, first smelled smoke and found the bed on fire in her daughter Chloe's room before scrambling the 15-year-old and sister Lola, 12, out of the house.

Firefighters raced to the scene on last Sunday afternoon and spent an hour tackling the blaze which largely destroyed the three-bedroom property.

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