BLACKBIRD LEYS: Two people escaped from a house fire yesterday.
Firefighters were called to Timothy Way at 10.15am On arrival firefighters saw smoke gushing out of first floor bedrooms of the house.
One adult and a child, on hearing the smoke alarm sounding, had escaped the house unharmed before the fire service arrived.
Crews entered the property to extinguish the fire in a bedroom, stopping it spreading to other rooms.
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