Flaming Pop-Tart leads to dramatic rescue from burning house

ELLISVILLE, Mo. — A broken Pop-Tart in a toaster was a recipe for disaster near St. Louis.

A woman called 911 when half a Pop-Tart, stuck in her toaster, quickly burst into flames last week.

"Thinking, how am I going to get that out of the toaster and before I knew it, flames shot out of that line of fruit that you could see," Peggy Cruse told KSDK.

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Body camera footage from an Ellisville police officer shows the house filling with smoke as rescuers arrived.

The woman's husband was stuck in a bedroom. Officers were able to get the man out, uninjured.

There is extensive fire and smoke damage in the kitchen and various other parts of the house.

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