A TikTok user from Connecticut has gone viral after posting a video that shows her tripping over a couch while trying to escape an out-of-control kitchen fire.
The footage, which was shared on an account partly run by Latisha Brost and has now been viewed 6 million times, was captured on a pet cam set up in the living room of her apartment.
“There’s a fire! Baby, there’s a fire!” Brost says to his wife at the start of the video as the crockpot bursts into flames. “Baby, what? [do] i will do it?”
“I don’t know. Let’s go outside,” she replied. Brost tried to put out the fire in the kitchen sink, but it got worse.
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Latisha Brost is seen being the first to respond to a fire in the kitchen of her apartment. (@rachandteash via Storyful)
The video ends with Brost running for the exit, dropping the burning frying pan, but tripping over a couch and falling to the ground.
The fire finally went out after the pot fell to the floor.
“It’s okay to laugh…the apartment was not damaged and I was lucky to only suffer second degree burns. You should never do this!” she later wrote on TikTok.
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When Brost tries to put out the fire by pouring water into the pot, the fire only gets bigger. (@rachandteash via Storyful)
“We shared this because we didn’t know what to do. It’s very embarrassing but I hope people can learn from this experience and not make the same mistakes we did,” she added.
Brost said in another video that she began to panic.
Brost can be seen throwing a burning pot into the air as he runs to safety. (@rachandteash via Storyful)
“When something like that happens, you don’t have much time to think, and all I could think of was putting out the fire with water,” she said. “Obviously, you can’t put out an oil fire with water. I knew that, but at the time my mind was racing.”
The video ends with Brost tripping over a couch, causing a pot to fall to the ground and extinguish the fire. (@rachandteash via Storyful)
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“People ask me why I threw the frying pan, but the truth is I was holding the frying pan and it was going to burn me, so I let it go because it was literally so hot,” she said. “It would have been a lot worse if I hadn’t. I was very lucky that I only suffered second-degree burns.”
