Arsonists set fire to the bedroom of a Telford home while the owner was out, police said today.

An elderly man was dragged to safety from his burning home by neighbours as fire tore through his rural cottage in Shropshire.

An 85-year-old woman is lucky to be alive today after a blaze at her home near Oswestry, firefighters said.

Fire safety advice has been given to people in more than 400 homes in Market Drayton after a 61-year-old woman died in a house blaze, firefighters said today.

Fire chiefs today reissued a warning about the importance of smoke alarms following two serious house fires in Shropshire in just two days.

A 61-year-old woman who died when fire ripped through a semi-detached house in Market Drayton had no working smoke alarms fitted at her home, it emerged today.

A woman died today after fire ripped through a semi-detached Shropshire house.

Arsonists set fire to six wheelie bins in the same street in Shrewsbury.

A family who lost everything in a house fire in Telford said they have been overwhelmed with the response from the public as donations of toys and clothing flood in.

A mother today revealed the desperate moment she dropped her seven-week-old baby out of an upstairs window to save his life as fire ripped through her home in Telford.

The group manager of Shropshire Fire and Rescue, Phil Clarke, warns of the dangers of portable heaters after a family from Telford were forced to flee their home through a window after a fire.

A fire which ripped through a house in Telford was caused by an electric heater, fire investigators said today.

A family of five, including a six-week-old baby, jumped for their lives from an upstairs bedroom as a fire ripped through their home in Telford this morning.

Shropshire saw a 30 per cent rise in the number of arson attacks in the final nine months of 2011, fire chiefs today revealed.

Ask your average person in a Shropshire street where the cuts should fall in these straitened times, and there will not be many who say the fire service should be a priority for the axe.

An investigation was continuing today after a farmhouse in north Shropshire was gutted by a fire.

About 20 firefighters today tackled a fire which engulfed a barn near Bridgnorth laden with 100 tonnes of straw and 30 tonnes of fertiliser.

A family was forced to flee their home after a fire broke out while they were having dinner.

Bridgnorth Rugby Club officials today vowed to ‘beg, borrow and steal’ to make sure one of its busiest weekends went ahead despite being hit by arsonists.

It was a normal Sunday night for Telford couple Clint and Emma Hall, who threw their children’s school uniform into the tumble dryer ready for the next day before retiring for the evening.

An elderly woman had to flee her house in Market Drayton after her washing machine caught fire.

A motorhome has been destroyed in a fire in West Felton which left one man needing hospital treatment. He rushed to move gas canisters away from the blazing vehicle.

A woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a flat in Shrewsbury today.

Part of a street in Ludlow was sealed off today after a fire broke out on the top floor of one of the town’s most historic buildings.

A fire ripped through a former Telford sports and social club destroying part of the clubhouse in a suspected arson attack.

An arson attack on a historic Shropshire building is the latest in a long catalogue of crimes along its street, a building boss claimed today. The attack was on the 1920s Walker Institute.

The number of people who have died in house fires in Shropshire this year is the highest since records began.

A section of a main Shropshire road was closed for about 25 minutes after a tractor burst into flames.

A man fled to safety and firefighters had to rescue his pet cat after a fire broke out today at a flat in Telford.

A fire, with a ten mile front, raged across the Brecon Beacons in south Wales yesterday.