FIRE engulfed the bedroom of a teenager after his TV burst into flames.

Nathan Rainer, 16, was watching television in his home in Newleaze Park, Broughton Gifford on Tuesday night when it started smoking and then burst into flames.

The teenager alerted his mother Meryl, 39, and 13-year-old sister and the family ran out of the house and called the fire brigade.

Nathan said:"We were standing next to our hedge and you could feel the heat. Then we had to move further back because things were exploding. My neighbours have a small baby so I made sure they got out of their house too."

Another neighbour woke up at about 12.15am to shouting and screaming coming from outside, and the sound of breaking glass.

She said: "I looked out of the window and saw the house was on fire. All I could see were flames, I thought I was dreaming."

Fire crews from Melksham, Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge and Cooper Avon arrived within 12 minutes along with an ambulance and police.

Firefighters used breathing apparatus and got into the house using ladders to extinguish the flames.

Nathan's father Denzil, 40, was at work at the time and could not hear his phone. Mr Rainer said: "The first I knew of it was when a colleague of mine said he could hear music and I realised my phone was ringing for about the sixth or seventh time.

"I would advise everyone to buy a smoke alarm if Nathan had been asleep when it happened he wouldn't have stood a chance the fire spread so quickly."

Nathan's room was gutted by flames and he lost all his music and DVDs, as well as clothes, books and his television. He said: "I'm most upset about my CDs because I really love music. All I have now are the clothes I'm standing up in."

The heat from the fire melted the plastic coating on the caravan parked on the Rainer's front lawn. Neighbours offered Mrs Rainer and her daughter a bed for the night and Mr Rainer and Nathan waited for the windows to be boarded up before spending the night in the caravan.

Phil Jones, of Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "The fire started in the bedroom and initially we thought people were trapped inside. We put out the fire using hose reels and used fans to ventilate the house. There was smoke damage to the rest of the first floor."