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Did not start. My wife was cleaning the carpet in the spare room which we have just renovated when it caught alight, along with her. I put it out with the first extinguisher I could grab - no time to choose - and it happened to be a powder job. I then had to get her out of the room and inhaled too much of the stuff.
Stuck her in a bath and her burns are okay. Not serious. Carpet is burned in a couple places. Need to buy a rug for the time being.
Annoying as hell. Sometimes you can never win. Spent the afternoon cleaning up.
Lucky we did not have a real disaster.
Linda was using a carpet cleaner and the mixture contained benzine. It must have been triggered electrically when the machine started - there were three isolated fires on the carpet and her leg was on fire. Does not make sense though as the benzine should not have separated.
I have seen cleaning benzine - is this different to ordinary benzine? Could the mixture have contained the latter? Anyone know?
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