A couple were rescued from a burning house after a blaze raged and blew out the upstairs window.
People living on Quernmore Road in Kirkby were startled awake by the sound of a loud bang as a fire engulfed a house shortly after 6am on Thursday. Firefighters were alerted to the fire at 6.10am and arrived on scene five minutes later.
They were joined by paramedics and police who sealed off a section of the road. One man was walking to the shop to get some sugar when he saw smoke billowing above the rooftops of nearby houses.
