Heroes reveal how they saved mum and tot from Wood End fire

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Three brave men ran to the rescue of a young mum and a toddler when they saw flames coming from a Wood End house.



Robert Johnson, of Lapworth Road, Wood End, had been putting out the rubbish and talking to his friends Daine Lowe and Junior Barrett on Sunday evening when he saw flames coming through the letterbox of a house opposite.

The heroic 25-year-old immediately jumped into action and grabbed his friends to help rescue the occupants.

“I just went to throw some rubbish in the bin and my friends were walking past so I started talking to them,” said Mr Johnson, a dad-of-four.

“Then I saw flames near the house opposite and at first I thought it was a wheelie bin on fire.

"But then I noticed flames coming through the letterbox and could hear the smoke alarm going off. That’s when I started panicking and told my friend we should go and help.

“We tried our hardest to open the front door but couldn’t so I smashed a window at the front of the house but couldn’t get that open either.

“I could hear the baby screaming inside and I have kids myself so I panicked even more. I just knew then we had to get them out.”

The quick-thinking trio then ran to the back of the property and got in through a back window.

They rescued a 22-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter from the house before using buckets of water to put out the fire.

Mr Johnson added: “We were all struggling to breathe in there.

“The flames were getting quite big and the fire brigade still weren’t there so we had to put the fire out before the rest of the house caught fire. It all happened so quickly.”

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