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8th March 2004: A crafty fag break inside Underworld's storeroom turned into a nightmare for Janice Battersby when her dropped cigarette ignited some white spirits and started a fire, which due to the flammable negligee stored in the room quickly raged out of control. When her calls for help went unheard due to the blaring radio in the sewing room, Janice climbed on a shelving unit to reach the window but fell and was knocked unconscious. When the fire alarm sounded, the other girls were evacuated without a problem, but when Karen McDonald remembered that Janice had gone for a smoke, Nick Tilsley braved the smoke and flames and pulled her out. Both survived unharmed, miraculously in Janice's case - being knocked unconscious had saved her from inhaling a fatal amount of smoke.
 * For more information see Episode 5709 (8th March 2004).