We could hear people screaming: ‘Help me,’ so me and my brother, with some other people who live in the area, ran over to the estate to where you could still get underneath it and there were people just throwing their kids out saying: ‘Save my children.’



The fire crew, ambulance and police couldn’t do anything, they couldn’t get in, and they were just telling them to stay where they are, and we’ll come and get you.

But things quickly escalated beyond measure and they couldn’t go back in and get them. Within another 15 minutes the whole thing was up in flames and there were still people at their windows shouting ‘Help me’.

You could see the fire going into their houses and engulfing the last room that they were in.