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::''I screamed at her to get her shoes off and it ''[the flashes]'' kept going so I hassled her through and got her into the bath. I thought that the bath is wired to earth. It was a blue light you know what they call electric blue. She thought it was fun, she was laughing.''

* {{Ref|Mottesheadaccount}} In winter [[1980]], [[Cheshire|ChesireCheshire, England]] resident Susan Motteshead was standing in her kitchen, wearing flame-resistant [[pyjamas]], when she was suddenly engulfed in a short-lived fire that seemed to have ignited the fluff on her clothing but burned out before it could set anything properly alight.

::''"I was stood in the kitchen and my daughter just screamed out that my back was on fire. As I looked down it sort of whooshed all over me. It was like yellow and blue flames all over me. I was not burned at all. Not even my hair was burned."''