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Mother throws children from burning house
A mother threw her three children out of a first floor window into the arms of their father to escape flames engulfing their home today, a fire service said.
The family were awoken at 2am by a smoke alarm at the house in Burton near Christchurch, Dorset, and found the downstairs lounge on fire.
A Dorset fire service spokeswoman said the father jumped 15ft from the window. His wife then threw the three daughters - aged three, five and eight - from the window and he caught them. She then also jumped.
The family were checked over by paramedics and suffered shock and smoke inhalation but were otherwise unhurt.
"The fact they had to jump from a top floor window shows how severe the fire was and they are extremely lucky," the spokeswoman said.
"If they did not have a fire alarm they would have died."
8:22am Thursday 7th August 2008
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CommentPosted by: gorf, soton on 9:13am Thu 7 Aug 08
jeeez....
no unionjack flag then like in eastenders a few weeks ago?
jeeez....
no unionjack flag then like in eastenders a few weeks ago?
Posted by: dave, Southampton on 12:02pm Thu 7 Aug 08
a proper mum and dad.do anything for there children.well done both of you, you should feel very proud.
a proper mum and dad.do anything for there children.well done both of you, you should feel very proud.
Posted by: Ern on 2:30pm Thu 7 Aug 08
[quote]"The fact they had to jump from a top floor window shows how severe the fire was and they are extremely lucky,"[/quote]
No it doesn't. It just shows [italic]where[/italic] the fire was. Still, hats off to 'em
"The fact they had to jump from a top floor window shows how severe the fire was and they are extremely lucky,"
No it doesn't. It just shows
where the fire was. Still, hats off to 'em
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