Hamster fire - A British family has been left homeless all thanks to their pet hamster named Pebbles. Pebbles the hamster allegedly started the fire that consumed its owners Buckinghamshire home. Is Pebbles the hamster guilty of causing the fatal fire or are the family members to blame?
Tracey Hill, the owner of Pebbles the hamster, had placed the pet in the kitchen on top of the electric cooker for the night. Pebbles the hamster was making quite the ruckus causing the house members trouble sleeping. Little did the owners know that the hamster fire would leave them homeless.
Pebbles the hamster continued to run the wheel inside his cage that somehow inched towards the buttons on the electric stove. The pet hamster one way or another activated the electric stove. The cage immediately caught fire causing the hamster fire. Pebbles the hamster died instantly.
Three other pets had died in the hamster fire, which were two dogs and one chinchilla. The family members, Hill and her son, had managed to escape the fire after their alarm blazed at 4:30 in the morning.
The hamster fire caused £20,000 in damages wherein 25 percent was due to the fire while 75 percent was due to smoke and intense heat. Hill and her son, Kae, are currently in treatment for smoke inhalation following the fatal fire. With regards to the hamster fire, Hill had realised her mistake of placing Pebbles the hamster on the electric stove.
"I never realised the switch could be turned on so easily. I moved her into the kitchen so we couldn't hear her. I stood her cage on top of the electric cooker hob - the only big enough surface that the dogs couldn't reach," states Hill in a report by Telegraph.
The hamster fire was not caused by Pebbles the hamster but by the irresponsibility of its pet owners.
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