Family escape to roof after tumble drier catches fire
Written by terry on May 2, 2012 at 10:52
A family of 3 had to escape onto the roof of their home in East Sussex after a tumble drier caught fire.
Three crews from East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service attended the incident at the Royal Oak Inn, near Hastings at approximately 2.45am on Thursday morning. On arrival they found two adults and a child on the roof of the building.
The family were thankfully alerted to the fire quickly when the smoke alarms sounded.
A spokesperson for East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service told The Argus: “It was only a small fire in the tumble drier but three people had to be rescued from the roof. There was a lot of smoke in the building below so they couldn’t get down so they climbed onto the roof.”
No one was injured in the fire.
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