Family may need to be relocated following damaging Segway blaze at Wigan borough home
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A family may have to be rehoused after a blazing portable Segway wrecked their house with smoke.
Firefighters from Atherton fire station were called to the emergency on Cranworth Avenue in Tyldesley at around 11.30am this morning. (March 29).
The two-wheeler hadn’t been plugged in or in use at the time.
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Hide AdNo-one was injured and the family evacuated themselves after hearing the smoke alarms.
But the fire caused extensive smoke damage and a spokesman for the crews said the occupants may need relocating as a result.