Aerosol blast danger.PEOPLE are being urged not to keep aerosols in their kitchens after a fire at a flat. The incident happened at a first-floor apartment in Rosedale, Wallsend, at around 1.30am today. A can of deodorant deodorant /de·odor·ant/ (de-o´der-int) 1. masking offensive odors. 2. an agent that so acts. de·o·dor·ant n. , which had been left on top of a toaster, exploded and caused two living room windows to shatter. A 25-year-old man inside the property managed to put out the blaze with a damp cloth. He was not injured. A spokesman from North Tyneside North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear in the North East of England. Its seat is at the Town Hall, Wallsend. Created in 1974, the borough lies within the historic county boundaries of Northumberland. south fire station said: "When we got there, the fire had been put out and the kitchen was slightly damaged. Two windows had been blown out by the explosion. "Our advice to householders is to not keep aerosol aerosol (âr`əsōl,–sŏl): see colloid. aerosol System of tiny liquid or solid particles evenly distributed in a finely divided state through a gas, usually air. containers in their kitchen, particularly near a heat source, because the result can be fatal." |
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