London police remained baffled by the incident, according to the Daily Mirror. An incomprehensible flame ruined a sofa inside a store in Fulham, southwest London.
Rajini Patel was perplexed when, at 9am on Sunday, a neighbor's youngest son told her that he saw a sofa burning inside a store rented to Fulham Road in London, two floors below her apartment.
Without hesitation, a resident of Fulham called the fire brigade. The crew had to break open the realtor's door in order to extinguish the fire, which at first took a square shape and, slowly spreading, burned the entire sofa.
Rajini told Get West London: “I was just getting ready to go to Sainsbury in the morning when a neighbor's son told me that there was a fire in the store. “I looked out the window and saw that a square-shaped fire was blazing right on the sofa. It was very strange."
“I called the fire department right away, but started filming the event, because what I saw was very strange, and I could not understand how this fire appeared there.”
Clyde Johnson, a store employee, said: "We are very grateful to Ms. Patel for calling the firefighters, but we still have no idea how the fire started."
“This is a fire resistant sofa, thankfully, so it didn't burn much. But we don't know what caused the fire: a laser pointer or maybe a magnifying glass, or was the sun just too bright?"
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The police cannot understand the reasons for the incident.
A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade added that "Ms. Patel did the right thing by calling the firefighters." "We would like to advise others to call the fire department in such cases as well."