Blaze tears through family bedroom

Maxwell Kusi Obodum • Published 8 Jan 2012 18:30 0 Comments

A FAMILY are picking through the remains of a blackened and charred bedroom tonight (Sunday) after a fire tore through their east Reading home.

The blaze began shortly after 2.15pm in Denmark Road in a first floor bedroom while the couple and their young daughter were out.

Crews from Caversham Road and Wokingham Road arrived within minutes and contained the flames to the room - but the thick smoke caused severe damage to the first floor and a second floor loft conversion.

Wokingham Road crew manager Charlie Bell put the cause of the fire down to a bedroom lamp and said: "Luckily the bedroom door was closed before the fire started which prevented it from spreading to the rest of the house."

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This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 08 Jan 12

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