TODDLER Jak Reed proved big trouble comes in little bundles when he burned down his home a week before his second birthday.
The youngster was in his playpen when his mother, Christina, left the room for a few seconds.
He clambered out of the pen took her cigarette lighter out of the pocket of her dressing gown and set fire to his toys.
Within seconds the entire room was engulfed.
Ms Reed dragged him and her other son, Alexander, ten, out of the house in Cramlington, Northumberland. Their home was extensively damaged.
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