A couple have described the dramatic moment when they had to 'jump out of the window' after a fire broke out in their home. Ausra Agintiene and Rolandas Agintas, a married couple originally from Lithuania, were left with nothing after the devastating incident that happened at around 4pm on April 18.
The couple, who were living on the top floor of the house on Middleton Road, Newark, were sharing the property with two more people who were based downstairs. Ausra Agintiene, 60, said she was laying in bed watching TV and her husband was asleep, both unaware that a blaze wrecked their house from the ground floor.
Crews from Newark, Collingham, Bingham, London Road, and Grantham including the Aerial Ladder Platform, worked to extinguish the fire. In the hours following the fire, people living around the house were warned to keep their doors and windows shut to keep out smoke. Later that day at around 7.45pm, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said they had scaled the incident down with one fire engine from Newark Fire Station still on scene and that a Fire Investigation was taking place to investigate the cause.
