A woman faces spending Christmas without her partner and daughter for the first time, after they both tragically died in a house fire. Neighbours rushed to the scene to try and help Caroline Scott’s partner Paul and their daughter Mia escape their home; however it was swept up in a blaze so strong that billowing smoke and flames became too overwhelming for anyone to get the father and daughter to safety.
Lancashire Live reported that the devastating fire occurred on Sunday, May 22 at Toll Bar Houses in Distington, Cumbria. Residents in the area were woken in the early hours of the morning as the blaze raged through number nine, where Paul, Mia, and Caroline Scott had lived since 2006.
Caroline had managed to escape and was shouting for help, as Paul, known as Archie, could be seen in the front upstairs window shouting “help me”, as a gathering crowd of neighbours urged him to jump. One of them, Keith Barton, was reportedly one of the first on the scene. He said that he saw Archie hanging out of the upstairs front window, using a pair of jeans as a makeshift rope.
