A family with young children have lost most of their possessions after a fire ripped through their home in south Wales. Marilyn Hemmings and husband Mark have been left devastated after a fire started at their three-bed semi on Haydn Terrace, Merthyr Tydfil on Friday, October 21.
The couple were in the lounge at around 10.30pm while their two young children Malakai, nine and Cassius, six, both of whom are disabled, were upstairs when Cassius came running down the stairs to tell them there was a fire. They made a panicked exit and emergency services attended the blaze which has left the family's home destroyed.
Explaining how the fire unfolded, Marilyn's daughter Jo Stanley, 31, said: "My mum and stepdad were downstairs when the youngest came down to say there was a fire." She said her 17-year-old sister Olivia, who was also at home at the time, said the "whole of the upstairs was ablaze" before quickly grabbing six-year-old Cassius, who is autistic, and running outside.
