A woman who used a wood burner to heat her home due rocketing energy costs has seen her house destroyed in a devastating blaze.
Fire crews were alerted to the blaze in Chopwell, Gateshead, at around 10pm on January 2, and arrived to find the woman’s home engulfed by flames.
They tackled the inferno using thermal imaging cameras, and later discovered the cause of the fire was a wood burning stove which the woman had been using to keep warm to avoid switching on the heating.
