Family's horror after waking up to find shed ablaze in deliberate fire attack
dailyrecord.co.ukA horrified family were woken in the early hours of Easter Sunday to find their garden shed a flaming fireball after a deliberate fire attack.
Jamie and Martin Bayliss along with their two daughters lost thousands of pounds worth of possessions in the blaze at their home in Beattie Avenue, Cross Heath.
The family were asleep with the shed was targeted by a firebug at roughly 2am on Sunday, but were woken by their dogs barking as the inferno took hold.
Firefighters attended the scene and were able to extinguish the flames by 4.30am, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports. However, everything in the outbuilding was destroyed including including tools, bikes and camping equipment.Jamie believes arsonists are targeting the local area, after two similar incidents in the same street in the past week.She said: "When we got up and saw the fire it was starting to spread in the direction of the other houses, so it was lucky that it was stopped."We were both asleep, it was actually our daughter who woke up first.
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