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Family's lucky escape was due to the snow
A family had a lucky escape from a fire at their home in Ottershaw after children playing outside in the snow alerted them to the blaze.
The children knocked on the downstairs window of the house in Tringham Close at 11.30am on Monday February 2 after they spotted smoke coming from an upstairs window.
Two adults and a child escaped unhurt and firefighters from Chertsey had the flames under control within about 10 minutes.
Neighbour, William McDay, 27, said: "It really was very lucky that all the kids were outside playing in the street, so that they saw the smoke coming from the window.
"If it hadn't been for them being off school, who knows what might have happened to the family in the house."
It is unclear what the cause of the fire was, and damaged furniture was later removed from the property.
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me and my brother reported this story to you... it was a cigarette on a matress that made the fire