Firefighters were called to a residential blaze in Elswick, Newcastle, on July 11 after a lithium-ion battery on an e-bike caught fire after it was left on charge in a bedroom.
As the blazing battery was blocking the door, Rebecca Downes only means of escape was to jump 30ft from the second-floor window. She died from the horrific injuries she suffered in the fall.
Drop your phone and the main worry will be a cracked screen and the prospect of reading your messages through a spider web of damage for the rest of its life.
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Bobby Lee, 78, was killed in a horrifying house fire in London believed to have been started by an exploding e-scooter, as the rest of his family managed to escape the flames