Residents at a Tameside tower block have described how they fled to safety after a huge blaze broke out. One man living at Portland House in Ashton-under-Lyne says he heard a 'little explosion' around half an hour before neighbours began desperately urging him to 'get out.'
Flames and smoke began billowing from the building off Katherine Street near the town centre after the fire started at around 11:30am this morning (Tuesday).
The blaze quickly engulfed the flat in which it started. Firefighters raced to the scene and quickly extinguished it, preventing it from spreading to any neighbouring flats.
