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(WSVN) - An Ohio household is counting their blessings aft their information cameras captured an iPhone bursting into flames portion it was charging connected their room counter.

Jennifer and Brian Leisgang posted the video to Facebook hoping that their communicative would support different families from suffering a worse destiny than they did.

On Jan. 9, astir 1 a.m., the household said they were charging an iPhone 4 portion they were sleeping. The telephone was being charged with an archetypal Apple charger.

A information camera wrong the location captured the tiny occurrence igniting and past burning connected the countertop earlier yet fizzling out.

“Luckily we had conscionable cleaned disconnected the antagonistic yesterday arsenic it usually has tons of schoolhouse books and papers successful that area,” the household said successful the Facebook post.

Brian shared the video and photos of the aftermath connected societal media arsenic a informing to different Apple users to beryllium vigilant and guarantee their electronics are charging distant from thing that could perchance drawback fire. 

“We were highly fortunate to debar a location fire,” Brian wrote connected Facebook. 

Leisgang said that she, arsenic good arsenic different parents she knows, usage older products similar the iPhone 4 to simply springiness their younger children thing to ticker videos with. 

The household did record a assertion with Apple hoping to get immoderate benignant of proposal erstwhile it comes to older Apple products, but the institution was incapable to springiness a straightforward answer. 

“Their verbal response, and I americium paraphrasing due to the fact that I did not constitute it each down, was that my instrumentality was vintage, and they don’t expect their clients to beryllium utilizing a telephone that old,” Leisgang said. “They did not truly person an answer.” 

Leisgang said the institution did inquire for her to nonstop successful the telephone successful bid for much probe to beryllium conducted. 

Apple told FOX13 that they were alert of the incidental involving Leisgang’s instrumentality and were “looking into the substance further.” 

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