Four-year-old saved from flames in Blackpool by neighbour with bat | Blackpool

A woman has revealed how her partner saved a four-year-old boy from a house fire in Blackpool which killed the child’s parents.

The boy’s mother and father died in the fire in the early hours of Wednesday and their two children remain in hospital. The youngest child, a boy, is in a “very bad condition”, police said.

Lancashire Police and Fire Brigade are investigating the cause of the blaze on Peter Street.

Kara-Marie Pearson said her partner, Jake Hartill, saved the four-year-old after he used a baseball bat to smash a glass panel in the front door as the house was engulfed in flames.

The couple, who live next door to Terrace Street, about half a mile from Blackpool Tower, were woken by the fire at around 2.30am.

Pearson said: “If he [Hartill] If I hadn’t pulled the little boy out, he would have died. I heard a huge noise and looked out my bedroom window. The whole ground floor was literally on fire. You couldn’t even see it, it was pure orange. It was like an explosion. All I could hear was the father screaming, “Help! Help! Help!”

“My partner and I ran downstairs, the first thing he did was he took a bat and he smashed the glass in the door and as he smashed it the little boy was behind it. He picked him up and pulled him out, while the father was still screaming upstairs. When he smashed the glass the boy was standing there, he had to pull him out of the fire. His skin was red and burning.

“Once we got the little boy to safety, all the windows shattered and exploded. We all had to stand back because the flames erupted. It was like a forest fire, you can’t explain how those flames started.”

Police said firefighters and officers were called to the address at 2:39 a.m. Wednesday to reports of a fire with people inside.

The children’s mother was found dead, while the father was later pronounced dead at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

Investigators said they were keeping an “open mind” about the cause of the incident. No arrests have been made.