A Queensland student says she owes her life to Facebook after barely escaping a house fire which set alight the mattress she was sleeping on.
Hunter Matthews, 17, awoke to find her bedroom alight when a Facebook alert was sent to her iPhone at 1.34am on Tuesday, The Chronicle reported.
The schoolgirl was asleep when a nearby heater ignited clothing and the mattress she was sleeping on in her grandmother’s Toowoomba flat.
The room was full of black smoke and flames when her phone woke her with the alert.
"I can still shut my eyes and remember when I woke up, taking that big breath of air only to realise it was smoke," Hunter told The Chronicle.
She and her grandmother fled the house and called 000.
The fire destroyed much of the unit and her grandmother’s belongings.
"It was the scariest experience of my life," Hunter was quoted saying.
She said the phone alert that woke her up was a friend commenting on her Facebook status update.
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