Be careful what you wish for eh? LOL

[fuzzywuzzy]

Too many cooks spoil Mother's Day breakfast in bed

A Lower Templestowe woman had a Mother's Day to remember yesterday.

As she lay in bed waiting for breakfast made by her three children, their culinary skills failed to match their good intentions.

While they were cooking a special treat, the stove caught fire and spread quickly to the ceiling and roof.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire services officer Trevor Woodward said: "The mother was sitting in bed waiting for her kids to bring in breakfast when she heard them shouting and yelling — she thought they were having a fight," he said.

"They were trying to do the right thing and make her breakfast. I am not sure what they were making, but whatever it was, it turned out to be a barbecue."

When the parents realised their kitchen was on fire, they called the fire brigade while the woman's husband, aged in his 50s, tried to douse the flames with a blanket he grabbed from the bedroom.

He had to be taken to hospital with burns to his hands, while the eldest of the three aspiring chefs — aged 18, 16 and 10 — was taken to the Austin Hospital with smoke inhalation.

The man was last night reported to be in a stable condition.

Templestowe MFB station officer Rod Lawler said the fire spread quickly from the stove top and rangehood into cupboards and the roof.

It took three fire trucks to put out what he described as "a fairly serious fire".

"We had to pull off part of the roof," he said. The family had only moved into the house a couple of months ago, he said.

Although the house had three smoke detector alarms, the batteries had been disconnected so that there was no contact.

Mr Lawler said the injury to the woman's husband could have been avoided had there been a fire blanket in the house.

Yesterday afternoon, the woman told The Age she was too distressed to talk about the morning's events.


She wont' forget that mothers day when her children tried to kill her :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl



Oh I love these kinds of stories.

[kayleneaussie]

omggggggggggg :eek:

[Odie]

kayleneaussie;1186732 wrote: omggggggggggg :eek:


ditto!