Family 'lost everything' in house fire

THE sister of a mum and two children who lost everything' after a blaze ripped through their home has told of their devastation.

- ASHLIE BLAKEY

The fire broke out in bedroom inside the terraced property on Heald Avenue in Rusholme on Wednesday afternoon. The family who lived there - a 26-year-old mum and her two boys, aged six and eight - managed to escape unhurt.

The two children were sitting on the front doorstep eating ice cream at the time the blaze broke out, and their mum ran out of the house as soon as she saw her bedroom 'covered in smoke! The sister of the mum - who said the family does not wish to be named - said they will now have to 'start right from the beginning' after losing most of their belongings including clothes, the children's toys, and furniture.

Speaking the M.E.N. about the blaze, she said: "My sister was downstairs, the two little boys were sat on the doorstep eating their ice creams they had just got. She heard the smoke alarm going off but downstairs sometimes it goes off and she just has to bang it with a mop.

"She went up the stairs and noticed a bit of smoke but her bedroom door was closed. She opened it and the bedroom was covered in smoke.