A passer-by helped save a closed shop and flats in Fulham, south east
London, from going up in flames after spotting a sofa which had
mysteriously caught fire in a square shape.
Ragini Patel was on her way to a supermarket just before 9am last Sunday
when the young son of a neighbour told her he could see a sofa on fire
in the Lettings Company shop in Fulham Road which has two floors of
flats above.
She instantly called the fire brigade who had to smash down the estate
agent’s door to put the fire out which started in a square shape and
slowly spread out to burn the entire sofa.
She
said: “I was just going to Sainsbury’s in the morning when my
neighbor's son told me there was a fire in the shop. I looked in and a
square-shaped fire was burning into the sofa. It was very odd. I called
the fire brigade straight away then started filming because it was very
bizarre, I couldn’t figure out how it had started.”
Colleagues from the Lettings Company are very grateful to Mrs Patel and
her neighbor's son but are still mystified as to how the fire started
in their shop.
Clyde Johnson, from the shop, said: “We’re very thankful to Mrs Patel for phoning the fire brigade but we still have no idea how it started. It’s a fire resistant sofa luckily so it minimised the fire but we don’t know if it was caused by a laser pointer or maybe a magnifying glass or just the sun shining in oddly. The police can’t figure it out either.” A London Fire Brigade spokesman added: “The member of the public who called us did the right thing. We would advise anybody to do the same thing - call straight away.”
She
said: “I was just going to Sainsbury’s in the morning when my
neighbor's son told me there was a fire in the shop. I looked in and a
square-shaped fire was burning into the sofa. It was very odd. I called
the fire brigade straight away then started filming because it was very
bizarre, I couldn’t figure out how it had started.”
Colleagues from the Lettings Company are very grateful to Mrs Patel and
her neighbor's son but are still mystified as to how the fire started
in their shop.
Clyde Johnson, from the shop, said: “We’re very thankful to Mrs Patel for phoning the fire brigade but we still have no idea how it started. It’s a fire resistant sofa luckily so it minimised the fire but we don’t know if it was caused by a laser pointer or maybe a magnifying glass or just the sun shining in oddly. The police can’t figure it out either.” A London Fire Brigade spokesman added: “The member of the public who called us did the right thing. We would advise anybody to do the same thing - call straight away.”
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