Batty bat wrote:
We used to rent a house out once in Greeford back in 89.it had 4 people living in it. One of them lit a cigarette and the match ignited a thread on the side of the couch. That couch was fully ablaze before we could get half a bowl of water to throw over it. Believe me once it gets hold, it gone so quick. When you see it first hand. It's not hard to understand how people get traped and killed.
Must have been an old sofa.
I think it was sometime in the 70's they enacted legislation saying all interior furniture had to be constructed mainly from fireproof materials. Of course most have wood inside which cannot be made fireproof but they can treat the soft furnishings these days, so they will not catch even ig you aim a blow torch at them.
Yes, it was old.
It had a "hessian" back. I was sitting talking to the tenant when it happend. As I said, the flame just caught a thread, then flash. The fire was behind and under the sofa probably within 2 seconds.
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