A mother of two died in a blaze after a child set fire to a teddy bear with a cigarette lighter
Chloe Doggett was staying at a house in Tonypandy in South Wales when the blaze broke out.The 28-year-old was pronounced dead at hospital three days after the fire in September last year.
An inquest on Wednesday heard all adults in the home smoked and lighters were strewn across the house. When it broke out, Ms Doggett was in her boyfriend's top floor bedroom, Facetiming her best friend Phillipa Stevens. Ms Doggett's boyfriend said he opened the bedroom door to find smoke, and saw a child in the room opposite which was on fire."I didn't realise Chloe was still in the bedroom until I got outside."A group of men including an off-duty firefighter tried to save Ms Doggett but could not get up the stairs for the smoke, and attempts to break the window from the outside were unsuccessful.
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