A dispatcher, for Ogden City police and fire had quite a scare, when her cell phone battery caught fire … in her coat pocket!

Kris Munford, was working at her dispatch desk, when she noticed smoke coming from her jacket.

By the time she could check it out, the phone had burned a hole through her jacket.

It then fell to the floor and exploded … shooting a piece of plastic across the room.

“I THINK I WAS MORE IN SHOCK. I HADN’T REALLY REALIZED - THERE WAS NO INDICATION BEFORE THAT MY CELL PHONE WAS HOT THAT ANYTHING WAS HAPPENING. IT WAS JUST THE SMELL AND THEN THE SMOKE AND WITHIN PROBABLY TEN OR FIFTEEN SECONDS - IT HAD EXPLODED.”

Munford isn’t alone.