Liam Payne Apartment Fire Injures Friend of One Direction Member
A friend of Liam Payne was sent to the hospital on Monday night after Payne's apartment caught on fire.
Payne, of the boy band One Direction, was with his friend at his apartment in Docklands, the UK's Daily Mail reports. During the visit, Payne's friend allegedly tried to put fuel into an outdoors heater that was located on the flat's terrace.
A source told the Daily Mail that the heater eventually caught fire. As a result, the apartment's balcony caught fire as well.
Payne, who was in his kitchen when the fire erupted, reacted quickly, helping to douse the fire.
At 9:45 p.m. on Monday, an ambulance and fire trucks arrived at the scene. Payne's friend was brought to a hospital. The friend, who is still in the hospital, received burns on his upper body due to the incident.
Payne, 20, also rode with his friend in the ambulance while he traveled to a hospital for treatment.
Payne received no injuries from the fire. His balcony, on the other hand, was ruined.
Currently, One Direction is working on their second album, which the band hopes to release by this winter.
"[It's a] very rock direction," Payne said in an interview with MTV News."We actually spent a lot of time writing this album.We're very proud of it, so we can't wait for it to come out...It's very live sounding, very rock-y."
According to Payne, the upcoming album is "quite retro."
"...but it's very different, so we are hoping people will kind of adjust to the music with us," Payne said.
Recently, Payne's band mate Zayn Malik made headlines when it was revealed that he was almost kicked out of One Direction. The news came during a news conference for the band's 3-D film, This is Us.
"The first week we got together it was all a bit strange trying to get people together for rehearsals," Payne said regarding Malik. "Still to this day it's a struggle to get Zayn out of bed."
Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker who shot This is Us agreed with Payne.
"Remember he didn't show up and you were going to fire him," he said.
This is Us was released Aug. 29.