A Scots mum claims she was reduced to tears after a Hamilton café owner humiliated her when he 'rudely' asked her toddler to quieten down.
21.01.2022 - 08:08 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots family has been left with nothing after a blaze ripped through their flat and killed their beloved pets.
Fire crews raced to the inferno on Oxgang Road, Grangemouth, at around 12.25pm on Tuesday, January 18.
The flat, which belongs to Dawid, 38, and Magda, 32, Slomczynski and their son Artur, 12, has been left gutted by the devastating blaze.
Neighbour Toni Coates, 33, watched the scene unfold after arriving home to see smoke coming from her block of flats.
Speaking to the Daily Record, she said: "I saw smoke coming from our building and realised it was coming from the bottom flat.
"There was a man on the phone to the fire brigade, he was trying all the buzzers.
Toni, who initially thought it was a 'small fire', raced inside to shut her flat windows and bang on doors to alert her neighbours.
But the inferno quickly took hold of the flat.
"As soon as the fire brigade put the Dawid and Magda's door in, the close just filled with thick smoke.
"The windows had gone out at the back with the fire and all the flames were going up the back of the building."
Toni had watched in horror after a neighbour ran in to rescue her cat before fire crews arrived and became 'stuck in her flat' until the flames were extinguished.
Thankfully, no one was injured in the fire but three pets tragically died.
The Slomczynski family's cat Rambo and dog Kaya perished in the fire, despite firefighters' efforts to save them.
She said: "Dawid had only been out about 15 minutes shopping and their son was at school.
"He turned up about the same time as the fire brigade and tried to run in because of his dog.
"He was just shouting 'my dog is in there, my dog'. The firefighters had to stop him.
"His wife turned up after and was hysterical about the cat.
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