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A man had to be rescued after setting the front of his house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter.
Firefighters say the man, in his 40s, had been trying to set fire to the spider as it crawled up the front of the semi-detached property
But sparks reached material behind the cladding and caused a fire within the walls, shortly before midnight.
Three fire engines raced to the scene in Portsmouth, Hants, and found the man trying to put out the flames with a garden hose.
Firefighters say the man, in his 40s, had been trying to set fire to the spider as it crawled up the front of the semi-detached property
But sparks reached material behind the cladding and caused a fire within the walls, shortly before midnight.
Three fire engines raced to the scene in Portsmouth, Hants, and found the man trying to put out the flames with a garden hose.
Man set house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter
A man had to be rescued after setting the front of his house on fire while trying to kill a spider with a lighter.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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