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Dad smashed Cameron House window to help newlywed wife and son escape hotel fire

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A dad has told of the moment he launched a chair to break through a window so he could save his newlywed wife and their young son from a burning hotel.

Andy Logan, his wife Louise and son Jimmy were trapped in Room 10 at the Cameron House Hotel, on the banks of Loch Lomond near Balloch, during a blaze on December 18, 2017.

The Englishman, who works in the hotel trade, went to the five-star hotel just 48 hours after he and his wife married in Worcester.On Tuesday, he told a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of Simon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson how he heard the pre-alarm sound and went to open his door, and at first could detect the same smell that he experienced when he got to the hotel hours before."I thought then it was smoke coming out of the fires and had come up and triggered the alarm," said the 46-year-old.But when he opened the door, and saw "the wall of smoke", he realised the gravity of the situation and decided to stay put.

He turned to his wife, the inquiry heard, and said "we are not getting out".Read more: CCTV footage of Cameron House hotel fire shows flames and smoke spewing from concierge cupboard"That point in time I was shocked, concerned, but very much I felt still in control.

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