A father and daughter both tragically died after their house caught alight due to a cigarette thrown into their fireplace.
Paul Scott, otherwise known as Archie, and his daughter Mia, 14, died from inhaling smoke resulting from the fire. While neighbours battled bravely to try and grab Paul and Mia from the house, they were forced to give up after they were overwhelmed by the fire and smoke.
At one point, Paul had managed to make it to the front upstairs window and pleaded with his friends and neighbours to "help me". Residents of Toll Bar Houses, Distington, were awoken in the early hours of Sunday, May 22, when a fierce fire broke out at number nine where the Scotts had lived since 2006, Lancs Live reports.
