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LONDON — A British woman’s underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught fire.
John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in Jenny Marsey’s kitchen in Hartlepool, England, on Sunday when their meal caught fire. Lines grabbed the nearest thing from a pile of laundry to put it out: his aunt’s billowing, powder blue, size XL underpants.
Lines ran them under the faucet and tossed them onto the flames, successfully smothering the fire, a spokesman for the Cleveland Fire Brigade said.
“It could have been a lot worse,” said Jenny Marsey, pictured above holding her scorched underwear. “My family could have been in hospital, but the knickers saved the day.”
The Associated Press
