Katy Emslie, a 26-year-old medical student from Aberdeen was asleep in her bedroom when suddenly her EE power bar that was left to recharge overnight blows up across her room on Thursday night. In a moment of panic, the student tried to extinguish the flames caused by the explosion with her bare hands fearing that the flames would burn her bed.
Ms Emslie said she was “terrified” after the EE power bar that was plugged to her laptop to recharge blew up like a “firework” across the room. Ms Emslie told BBC’s Newsbeat that once the loud noise had woken her up, the next thing she remembered was seeing flames underneath her bed;
“I panicked because there was actual flames as opposed to embers”
“I was terrified because I thought it was going to either burn through the floor or catch fire onto the bed”
She then immediately called her mother who grabbed a wet towel to extinguish the flames.
“My hands smelt of firework, my clothes smelt of firework, my hair smelt of firework. My pillow has black soot on it, so it obviously went past my pillow and missed my head by about six inches. It could have landed on my bed and I might not even be here”
Ms Emslie was taken to a hospital to treat her hand that was left blisters and burns.
EE power bars are portable charging devices that are offered to EE, Orange and T-Mobile customers to charge their phones on the go.
In response, a spokesperson for EE told The Independent;
“We’re sorry to hear about Ms Emslie’s experience”
“All of our products undergo stringent safety tests. This is an isolated incident and we’re in contact with the customer to investigate the cause of this issue as a matter of urgency”
Source: The Independent
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