A heroic dad managed to stop a wall of flames reaching his house - with a garden hose. Lee Palmer, 50, spotted a worryingly big fire in his neighbour's garden, after flames quickly spread from a nearby alleyway, in the searing heat.
The fire service were on their way - but the flames were fast approaching, and had already taken out a garden fence. So he grabbed all he had - a garden hose - and was able to hold back the blaze from his garden.
His daughter Ellison Palmer, 19, watched on as brave lift engineer Lee fought the fire for around 10 minutes, saving his garden and home from the blaze, before the local fire brigade turned up and took over. Administrator Ellison, who lives with her parents, Lee and Clare, 47, said: "My window was open and my dad ran upstairs after seeing lots of smoke coming towards our garden.
