A mum has praised her neighbours after she "lost everything" in a devastating fire that ripped through her family home.
As the rain drizzled down on a quiet residential road in West Derby, Merseyside Police and Merseyside Fire and Rescue continued to work on the burnt-out remains of Toni Shield's home. The mum-of-two was forced to stay at her mum's home before returning to the street where her home resides after neighbours called her to tell her a blaze had broken out.
The 35-year-old had gone out with her friends last night (Wednesday, December 21) when her phone blew up with phone calls from frantic neighbours as flames could be seen roaring from the terraced house on Craigside Avenue. The mum rushed home to find her home nothing more than a burnt-out scene with Merseyside Police officers cordoning off the road.
