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OAP flees house after hot wheat bag bursts into flames

FIRE chiefs have warned of the potential dangers of wheat bags after an elderly woman escaped from a house fire sparked when the bag she was using to keep warm burst into flames. The 80-year-old called Humberside Fire And Rescue Service to her Cleethorpes home at 2.30 am yesterday after smoke billowing from the bag set off her fire alarm and woke her up.

https://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/OAP-flees-house-hot-wheat-bag-bursts-flames/story-13609006-detail/story.html