Children saved by fire alert mother
Monday 23rd March 2009, 10:52AM GMT.
A woman led her four young children to safety after spotting a blaze in the kitchen of their Telford home.
Smoke alarms alerted the householder to the cooker fire, which broke out as she watched TV in another room at the Malinslee property.
A fire chief today praised the woman for her actions in getting her family out of the end terrace home in Coachwell Close and prevent the flames from spreading.
Black smoke was starting to fill the home when firefighters from Telford Central and Wellington fire stations arrived after the alarm was raised yesterday, shortly before 11pm.
Alan Wilson, watch manager at Telford, said today: “We were called to a grill pan fire. On arrival the lady of the house had been alerted by smoke alarms.
“She then proceeded to close the kitchen door after noticing the fire. She raised her four children and escorted them from the property and then called the fire service.
“She did a perfect textbook job by closing the door and walking her children . . . out into the fresh air.”
He added the woman, who went to stay with relatives, had been making toast on the cooker, which was destroyed in the blaze.
Firefighters used a new system – positive pressure ventilation – introduced about four months ago, to extract smoke from the building within seconds rather than minutes.
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