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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2015
- Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman has spoken for the first time about the serious injuries her daughter suffered in a Halloween costume fire. Matilda, eight, was left with severe burns when her costume caught fire at a neighbour's house in London last year.
"We couldn't put her out," Winkleman told Chris Hollins on the BBC's Watchdog programme. "Her tights had melted into her skin."
Matilda is beginning to recover after several operations but her surgeon is calling for fire safety laws to change.
David Sillito reports.
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That poor lady, more importantly obviously, her poor daughter.
Horrible accident on a night of fun. :( I hope she's doing much better.
That doctor is either a superhero, or he's in the witness protection program.
Or both
A very nasty thing to happen.
It is shocking and *completely* unacceptable that children's costumes aren't held to fire standards that are *at least* as strict for those regarding sleeping clothing.
If you think about it, children are more at risk for their Halloween costume catching fire than their pyjamas when sleeping at home.
I went into my local supermarket and was appalled to see that they were selling flammable Halloween garments .in my opinion they should be regulated. When I was a little girl there was a campaign high lighting just how dangerous it was stand by the fire in your house with flammable nightwear and that was a least 45 years ago! Have we not learned anything? Living room settees have to be made with the right materials why not children’s clothing?
Omg bad how on earth???
Just to remember..if it does happen to you OR a loved one DROP and roll.
How horrific I support regulations!
The place that supplied this crap should be brought to task. What I mean is, you are never going to get the sweat shop in China or Pakistan or wherever these are made, so you have to go for the UK sellers. Poor kid.
the point is it's cheap don't buy cheap cloths, look at the statistics of gow flammable prymark cloths are. because they are cheap synthetics
Story provoked debate on important issue. Pretty sure that packaging even on a 5 quid costume would say highly flammable - so onus is then on parents to be exercise care and attention. and clearly Claudia carried much guilt over this. That said Governments should ensure that any items that are intended for children should have the most rigorous standard applied - and laws need to be changed and enforced.
Also people need to stop leaving candles around
The world laughs at us Americans for being so litigious, but there's good reason for it. Reform, especially when it comes to the way products are manufactured, packaged, sold, or advertised sometimes starts with a good old fashioned lawsuit.
I can remember when the safety standards for children's pyjamas came in back in the 80s after so many children were injured in fires involving them. These standards should apply for ALL clothing
Doe sit say on dresses when you buy them that they can catch fire?
No she wasn't. Her clothes were on fire
i know this is a really sad thing, but did anyone else laugh their ass off at how abrupt the video title is?
john ruthger No
Not especially.
Nope
How is it even funny
I'm guessing because it sounded 'simple.'
I understand what he means but...it's not really the place to write it down here.
Half sister of Sophie Winkleman. Easy life for these top notch totty gals. If only we all had the contacts and access they've had.
Go complain somewhere else
it kinda is her fault, there's a reason it only cost 5 quid the cheapness of the outfit the flammability of the outfit is down to the parents to get right.
Also evey decent parent should make sure there is more than one fire extinguisher in there house. I keep 2 in my room and there are 3 downstares for these exact reasons.
@Byron Pocock Are you a parent yourself? Hindsight is a great thing, now that there's major awareness for these highly flammable costumes, we are all better informed! However, there is also trust that supermarket brands are producing safe merchandise. Prior to these awareness campaigns, I don't know anyone (in my circles) that would have thought of Fire-Hazard when buying supermarket costumes, it wouldn't have crossed even my mind! That does not make people bad parents, relatives, friends or whom ever purchased the item! The clothing companies, supermarket chains are fully accountable here, when selling clothes. Everyone is impacted, children and adult clothing! Finally, she never said she was in the house. Presumably they were outside, somewhere else, away from home trick-or-treating!
@@angiebelle33 evey year parents send ther kids out on haloween dressed up in all sorts. they used to advertise on TV urging parents to check labels and not to purchase cheap flammable cloths. I can only presume they stopped the ads because they thought al parents would and should be aware of the risks. I used to work at a school as a caretaker and the nativity came round I had to throw out about 30 kids outfits because of the potential risks. half of them had flammable tags and we decided as a collective that it was not even worth the risk and sourced much safer garments.
The moral of the story is don't shop at prymark or purchase cheap cloths just because there smaller doesn't mean they should be any cheaper than adult cloths.
If this was a council estate family they would be up 4 neglect ? Filth
Dumbest comment I've seen in a while
what an utterly disgusting human being you are.
Depends how the media would spin it but I see your point. Poorer working class families are vilified for actions which are portrayed as unfortunate accidents for celebrities. Sad world but that's what we've asked for.
rob m That is just not true.
If it was a council estate family no one would give a shit, and rightly so.
why does she need to tell everyone
Its on he fucking news
For safety reasons shit Sherlock
+MeganMoonWeb_Art I'm guessing you thought I was talking to you, rather than this being just a weird reply...
It's not like she'd been screaming it from the rooftops. Everyone knew it had happened, and she obviously decided to give a statement.
Mathieu Leader So that other parents will be aware of the dangers of these costumes. It's a brave thing to do because she must feel responsible even though it's not her fault.
Oh great, let's put a million rules on Halloween costumes, which are only worn on day of the year, so that way they cost 100-200 quid.
Instead of trying to put a million rules on costumes, how about parents be able to be a bit more attentive, make it so parents can at least know that the costumes are highly flammable, that way attentive parents can just be more attentive and watch their children going around lights and fire instead of making costumes prices rise because of something that doesn't happen much, is there an epidemic of children catching fire because of costumes? No? Then introducing hundreds of laws and rules on the costumes is not the way to handle this horrible situation. Now if there was an epidemic I'm all for it.
Feel horrible for Matilda, but let's not go crazy.
good point
The cost of adding flame retardants is more like pence, but if you'd rather kids be dressed in dangerous apparel...
rjh00 So, the price of a costume is more important than a child's life? Wow :(
rjh00 Does children's nightwear which is fire resistant cost upwards of 100 quid? No, fire retardant fabrics are relatively cheap to make and companies don't protect Halloween costumes to save pennies per unit (which obviously adds up to a big saving across production) but for the person buying the costume the price would be almost the same and your child will be safe. Its like the cladding on Grenfell tower, it would have cost 8000 quid to make it fire safe but because the housing company who runs it is privately owned they'll do anything to cut corners. As the current Tory government, Trump's government and brexit cause regulations to be dissolved, I think we will see many products going up in flames, being found to be toxic etc
you're right, how do we afford these fire-retardent pajamas for our kids? it's like a million dollars! Oh wait no it isn't, they're super cheap anyway. Re-examine your priorities and grasp on reality.