Child Safety

 

My heart goes out to the McCann family.

You ask if we would have left our children. When they were under three we were so broke that we couldn't afford a holiday.

At the time we were living in a fourth-floor walk up flat with a rudimentary fire escape.

One night though, when our middle son was about five, he climbed onto a stool, then onto the work surface in the kitchen and got the matches we used to light the gas cooker from the wall cabinet. He then started playing with them and set fire to a duvet.

Luckily we smelt the smoke in the next room and I was able to stop a large fire before it started.

So things happen even if your children are being supervised.

You have to remember that between 300 and 500 people die in fires in their own homes every year.