"Our vacuum's lithium battery exploded - we could have died in the fire" - video Dailymotion

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A family suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage to their home in a terrifying fire allegedly caused by - a vacuum cleaner.  Denise Graovac's 24-year-old daughter Sophie, who has autism, was home alone earlier this month (November 18) when she heard an "explosion".  She rushed to the garage at the home in Thames Ditton, Surrey to see what was happening - and found there were "flames and smoke everywhere".  Sophie immediately dialled 999 and the local fire brigade arrived - but not before the fire wreaked catastrophic damage.   Denise, who is retired, claims firefighters informed her that the re-chargeable lithium battery in her handheld vacuum had likely exploded.

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00:30Yeah, that'd be lovely, yeah, you can do it in pleasure then, can't it?

00:50Well, I was waiting for you, I was waiting for you for a while

00:54And in fact, my enemy's coming, he's going,

00:55He's here, so come on!

00:57The Lansley Leak, she's British, your Parliament

00:59They all spent hours on the road

01:01Ouch, yeah!

01:14Right, so I'm going to make now for you a fine,

01:16We know the five-star seat man went out for the boxes

01:18Yeah

01:19The side of the seat was smashed, I can tell you that

01:21Can you tell me?

01:22Yeah

01:24He's burned that side, which went up there to protect it

01:27So I don't scratch that

01:28OK

01:29We know it's focused there, and we can see the burn's gone up

01:31Yeah

01:32So Matt will photograph it, and then we'll pick it apart to see

01:36OK

01:38And we'll cut the water, put some of it off,

01:41Just bring this down

01:43OK

01:47Yeah, yeah

01:50No, no, it's got to be out here

01:52Yeah

01:53I'm just going to stop

01:55OK, just speak to Matt, I'll put him with you really shortly

01:58And then, I think she'll just face the camera now

02:01And she'll put it out for you

02:03I'll see you later

02:05Matt, I'm here to pass you on this stuff

02:07You see, I've got loads

02:09On Monday

02:10I'm in, I'm in as well

02:12Yeah, we'll help you out

"Our vacuum's lithium battery exploded - we could have died in the fire"

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