Bedroom gadgets a fire risk

There's a warning to parents that many gadgets in a kids bedroom could be a fire risk.

Mobile phones
Published 3rd Aug 2016

We're being warned 3 in 4 children in Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire are going to sleep with at least one fire hazard in their room.

Over half of kids that were asked admitted they'd left their phone charging on their bed.

38% were found by Electrical Safety First to have admitted to leaving their phones charging overnight under their pillow.

That's one of the main causes of electrical fires.

There's calls for parents to warn their children about the dangers over the summer holidays.

Allen Cunningham from Humberside Fire and Rescue service says we should be buying reputable branded gadgets, as cheap ones can be cheap for a reason:

"The potential is for them to overheat when they're left on 24/7.

I'd highly reccommend buying from a reputable source. We see people now buying very cheap models which are imported.

They don't have the safety in-built, or the quality that's required, and therefore it's those type of appliances that tend to overheat and cause a fire."