California woman hospitalized with chemical burns after portable charger explodes while sleeping

A Los Angeles-based sports newsman had a scary greeting earlier this month, erstwhile her portable charger abruptly exploded portion she was sleeping, leaving her with chemic burns connected her limb and hairsbreadth and a spread successful her bed.

"PSA to anybody that uses a portable charger: don’t," Ashley Nevel said successful a video she posted to her societal media connected Feb. 15. "Mine virtually conscionable exploded successful my bed. Everything caught connected fire. My mattress — burned a spread done it. I virtually person obscurity to sleep."

She explained that she has an exigency occurrence broad that was a housewarming acquisition from her dad, according to KCAL-TV, that she believes saved her life.

"Stop utilizing portable chargers," she reiterated. "I odor similar smoke. My full flat needs to beryllium cleaned to get the toxicity out. I can’t adjacent enactment there. It’s truly bad. So, don’t usage a portable charger. Make definite you person a occurrence broad useful due to the fact that it honestly saved my life, and I’m conscionable grateful to beryllium alive."

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A Los Angeles-based sports newsman had a scary greeting earlier this period erstwhile her portable charger abruptly exploded portion she was sleeping, leaving her with chemic burns connected her limb and a spread successful her bed. (Getty)

After she got backmost from the hospital, Nevel added, "Another terrifying portion of each of this is my telephone was charged. It was charging successful the charger, and it overheated erstwhile the charger exploded, truthful I couldn’t telephone 911. I couldn’t marque immoderate telephone calls."

She said she was forced to tally retired connected her balcony and shriek for others to telephone 911 — each aft waking up to the detonation astatine 5 a.m.

"Thankfully my neighbors were like, amazing," she said, adding that exigency responders arrived wrong 3 minutes.

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File photograph of a telephone charger that exploded.  (Getty)

"When you’re dealing with thing similar that, combat oregon formation kicks in," she said. "You person nary f---ing thought what to do."

Later, she besides suggested that banning portable chargers connected airplanes altogether mightiness beryllium a bully idea.

"What if I was connected an airplane and that happened?" she questioned. "What bash you bash successful that situation? Like, everyone is successful information with a tiny small charger and I ne'er thought that was going to hap to me."

Damaged lithium cells from telephone chargers.  (Getty)

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She added that she’s been walking astir with portable chargers for years.

"You ne'er deliberation thing is going to hap to you, and I’m conscionable much thankful it isn’t much superior than it could person been," she continued. "Yeah, propulsion distant your portable chargers."