A MUM has issued an urgent warning for people to check their smoke alarms, after her family nearly lost their lives in a devastating house fire. Simone explained that she'd put her dishwasher on to run at night, and that was what caused the blaze. The mum-of-two took to TikTok to share a video of her kitchen , which had been left blackened and burned out after the fire.
The ceilings of the kitchen were black and blistered, while the soot marks continued throughout the family home. Over the top of the video, Simone wrote: "This is your sign not to run your dishwashers at night. "Also check your smoke detectors.
Make sure they work. Like right now, go check." Read more Real Life stories When the dishwasher "malfunctioned" and started smoking, the alarm went off at 1.
25am, and "by 1.27 am our entire house was filled with smoke". "Had I not woken up when I did, we would not have made it out," Simone continued.
"The smoke was too thick. "We had no time to grab anything but our kids and get out." Most read in Fabulous She credited her smoke detectors for "saving our lives", as she admitted "the series of events that have unfolded at our home the last month and a half have been insane".
"We have endured a lifetime of trauma in a matter of weeks," she said, adding that it had been "financially devastating" too. While she held a small family party for her daughter's fourth birthday, the house is "unlivable" after the fire. "Our walls were white by the way," she said.
"Everything in th.