A family have been left homeless after a fire ripped through their home in Braintree.
Debris - aftermath of the fire in Greene View, Braintree. (43532-b)
Firefighters from Braintree and Coggeshall battled the blaze for nearly an hour after it broke out in a bedroom at the end terrace house in Greene View yesterday tea-time.
Fire chiefs say the lives of a 31-year-old woman, a 35-year-old man and two boys, aged five and seven, were undoubtedly saved by their fire alarm.
They managed to escape the blaze and raise the alarm with emergency crews after it went off.
Paramedics gave the two children and woman a check-up.
They suffered from the effects of breathing in smoke, but they did not need hospital treatment.
Two other families in neighbouring houses were also evacuated as a precaution after smoke spread into their lofts.
Braintree station officer Steve Winstrip said the blaze was not being treated as suspicious and stressed the importance of fire alarms.
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Published Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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