Ozzy Osbourne's flaming mansion

07-07-2006 14:50

Fire-fighters bravely battled a fierce early morning blaze at Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's£5 million mansion yesterday (06.07.06).The couple's 21-year-old daughter Kelly was reportedly the only member of the family at home when the fire - thought to be started by a faulty lamp - ripped through the family's Buckinghamshire home. Luckily, Ozzy had recently fitted the house with a state-of-the-art£2,000 fire alarm, which automatically alerted the emergency services.A Buckinghamshire Fire Service spokesman said: "The blaze was caught in the nick of time."If we hadn't been alerted so quickly it could have been a lot worse."

Kelly was woken by firemen and escaped unhurt, however, a female employee was treated for smoke inhalation.

The fire follows a series of unlucky incidents at the property.

In 2003, Ozzy spent eight days in a coma after a near-fatal quad biking accident in the grounds of the mansion, while the following year the rocker tackled a cat burglar, before the thief escaped with close to

£2 million of jewellery.

In March 2005, a fire broke out in the living room of the manor as the family slept.

A friend of Ozzy's said: "He thinks the place is bloody cursed. He is wondering if a plague of locusts will be next."