JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A Mississippi artist is asking for help after an explosion in the middle of the night led to an untamable flame.
In just 24 minutes, one woman’s life changed forever when her house suddenly caught fire in the middle of the night. The smell of smoke and the heat in the air remained heavy at the residence following the blaze.
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While charging a battery overnight, Michelle Carney said a fire caught fast within her home, leaving her filled with fear. She said she did everything she could, but could not contain the flames.
“Just fear. Just fear. But it was like not frozen fear. It’s like, I got to stop this. I got to stop this,” Carney said. “And I tried. I tried everything I could. I yanked the cord out. It was plugged into a power surge protector, and I yanked that off the wall and pulled it all out. And while I was doing the fire extinguisher research… I’m going to tell you that’s a lot harder to do these things than you realize unless you’ve ever done it, because not only is smoke coming in your face, the fire extinguisher dust is coming in your face. I was breathing all that.”…