A woman has been left homeless after a fire at her house.
The 33-year-old was taken to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, suffering the effects of smoke inhalation, after the blaze started in an upstairs airing cupboard at the semi-detached property in Byron Close, Braintree.
She was asleep when it broke out at about 10.30am yesterday and woke up coughing.
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