Garden furniture recently bought from Homebase caught fire in this week's extreme heat and started a blaze that spread to the nearby home. Kirsty Gawne, 27, from Stockbridge Village, was upstairs on Tuesday when she smelt what she thought was a barbeque. She came downstairs and saw flames coming from her window and a huge plume of smoke from where her new rattan garden sofa set was.
Kirsty told The ECHO: "The dog was around my feet and wouldn't move which was really weird. I looked around and the living room was full of smoke and I could see flames through the window. I was panicking because I didn't know where my phone was, my head fell off. I shouted my son and got the dog out and was screaming 'help help help' in the street.
"My neighbour but one said they had already seen the fire and called 999. I was so scared."
