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Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 1:41pm |
Hunter Matthews is lucky to be alive and can safely say that social media platform Facebook saved her life.
The 17-year-old student was home alone and asleep at her 65-year-old grandmother's Charnley St unit in Kearneys Spring, Queensland on Monday night when a heater ignited clothing and the mattress she was asleep on. Unaware of the fire and the thick black smoke filling her bedroom, Miss Matthews awoke when a Facebook alert was sent to her iPhone at 1.34am. “It was only by chance that a friend commented on my status and Facebook sent an alert through to my phone, which woke me up,†Miss Matthews said. “I am so lucky that I got that message, otherwise I would have been killed,†she said. Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/tech...#ixzz1RHBl6jxA |
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