Blaze baby rushed to hospital
Date published: 04 December 2012
A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD baby was rushed to hospital after a fire ripped through a Werneth home early today.
Four residents, including the tot, had to be taken from their Wellington Road home to the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Fire-fighters from Oldham and Hollins, called to the house at around 12.36am, say the heat from a melting candle’s metal casing melted through the plastic bath and started a blaze that destroyed the bathroom and caused smoke damage throughout the house.
Hollins crew commander, Mark Thompson, said: “If you’re going to use candles then please put them in the correct holder.
“The foil casing they come in gets really hot and can become dangerous if they are not in heat-proof holders.”
The family is not thought to have suffered injury.
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