A family had a lucky escape after a charging iPhone caught fire during the night while they slept - but fortunately only burned the countertop.<br /><br />Security camera footage caught the moment the 2010 phone exploded on the kitchen counter.<br /><br />Jennifer Leisgang and her family, from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, were asleep during the blaze that lit up their kitchen and charred their countertop.<br /><br />In a Facebook post, she warned other families in hopes to prevent this from happening to others and potentially suffering an even worse fate.<br /><br />"We were extremely lucky to avoid a house fire," she said.<br /><br />The "vintage" iPhone was given to their kids for something to use for watching videos.<br /><br />Jennifer added: "Our kids were charging our old iPhone 4 with the Apple charger last night and it exploded and caught on fire in our kitchen while we were sleeping. <br /><br />"Luckily we had just cleaned off the counter yesterday as it usually has lots of school books and papers in that area. <br /><br />"There were small pieces of the phone and black soot all over the counter this morning." <br /><br />Jennifer said she contacted Apple in regard to the incident but failed to get a decent explanation.<br /><br />She said: "Their verbal response, and I am paraphrasing because I did not write it all down, was that my device was vintage and they don’t expect their clients to be using a phone that old."<br /><br />The footage was filmed on January 19.
