It’s the safety precaution we’re all taught from a very young age: don’t go to bed with burning candles.

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne found themselves going over this lesson early Thursday morning when the living room in the couple’s Beverly Hills mansion caught on fire.

Sharon forgot to put out the candles before the couple went to bed. Around 4:45 a.m., she got up from her sleep to a strange smell with her eyes burning and throat closing up, she told her audience on "The Talk."

“My eyes are stinging and my throat's closing up something weird smelling in here, then my dogs started to bark, so I go out of the bedroom," she said. "I go downstairs and the whole living room—the candle had burst and the cracking sound was the glass in the candle exploding."

At first she thought the cracking sound was her housekeeper dropping a set of keys on the tile floor.

Ozzy had surgery on his arm just the day before and could only assist by opening the door while Sharon fetched water to battle the fierce blaze.

"I go into the kitchen to get water and throw the water on it, with the doors open and the water it erupted! It erupted, Ozzy's hair from here to here, gone," she said. "And we are like two idiots, it was like The Three Stooges. Everything you are not meant to do—go to bed with candles alight, open the doors and put water on—we did it all."

Beverly Hills firemen then showed up to the scene to help.

"At 5 o'clock, the firemen came and they were gorgeous," Osbourne said, "and I had my dressing gown on, and they laid me down on the front path, and they straddled me and they gave me mouth-to-mouth."

Sharon and Ozzy’s ordeal is just the latest in a string of celebrity home fires. Last week actress Heather Graham's New York apartment caught on fire from candles set for a bubble bath.

Tags: sharon osbourne house fire Ozzy Osbourne the talk