A little boy who saw smoke as he was in school didn't know it was coming from his house which had gone up in flames.
Suelen Arena had returned to her home in Maplewood Close, Netherley after picking up her daughter from nursery when she saw a lot of smoke coming from the house and rang the fire service. The ground floor of the house, which is home to Suelen, her husband Carmello and children Francesco, six and two-year-old Elisa was well alight.
The 35-year-old said the blaze - which is understood to have started in the kitchen - has left the family with "nothing at all, no belongings and no home." But Suelen told the ECHO the most difficult thing about the incident, which happened in October, was telling her son Francesco about what had happened.