NEIGHBOURS helped a couple and baby to safety after a house fire.
A man, woman, and a six-month-old child fled their home in Brooklyn Close, Highbury Vale, when a fire broke out in a upstairs front bedroom.
Notts Fire and Rescue Service say the cause of the fire is currently unknown, but neighbours say they heard a loud bang around the time the fire started at 9.40pm on Thursday.
Marie Wright, who lives next door to the terraced house, said she and her partner were in their kitchen when they heard a bang.
The 31-year-old mum-of-two said: "I went upstairs to check on my kids and saw smoke coming into our bedroom from next door.
"I shouted my partner and grabbed the kids and ran out of the house. The woman next door then banged on our door telling us to get out, and I saw her front bedroom window was black with smoke."
She said her partner went into the house to get the man out, as he was upstairs trying to tackle the blaze himself.
"We were all screaming for him to get out," she said.
"I'm very shocked. It could have spread to our house.
"Everyone is fine though, which is all that matters. It could have been much worse.
"Both of them were distraught at the time, but she's alright now and looking on the bright side that everyone is OK."
Firefighters from Stockhill and Arnold attended the blaze, which was extinguished by 10.53pm. The two adults in the house required treatment for smoke inhalation.
A burnt mattress could be seen stood up beneath the house's front window yesterday, while a glass pane of the front bedroom window was missing and had blown into a neighbouring front garden.
Another neighbour, who asked not to be named, said he also went into the house to get the man out: "I heard a lot of shouting and someone saying 'get the dog, the house is on fire'.
"We got her and the baby out and I was going to go upstairs to get him but I couldn't see anything. I shouted at him from the foot of the stairs until he got out.
"The baby seemed fine and was gurgling and laughing, but they seemed shaken.
"You could see the smoke in the window. When the fire brigade ventilated it you couldn't see anything as the street was thick with smoke."
