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10.03.2024 - 17:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots family were forced to watch in horror from their garden after house fire left them with nothing but the clothes on their back.
Jim, 54, and Nicola Jarvis, 45, were at home on Mary Street in Laurieston, Falkirk on Saturday, March 9 with three of their children Paul, 20, Robbie, 17, Chloe 14, when the fire alarm went off at around 7pm.
Within seconds they were forced to abandon the property and were left outside standing in their socks as their home burned to the ground.
Jim and Nicola had been out for a trip to Stirling during the day, taking their son Robbie to sit his driving theory test and had not long returned when the blaze broke out.
Speaking to the Record, Jim explained: "I heard the fire alarm and at first thought it was a typical false alarm but then I smelled smoke and jumped to my feet and ran into the kitchen. At that point Nicola started screaming at me that it was upstairs so I followed the smoke and ran up and noticed it was coming from our bedroom.
"We had renovated the place about 20 years ago and had an en suite bathroom fitted with a wee sauna attached to it and it seemed to be coming from there. When I opened the door to the sauna, smoke and heat just hit me like a brick wall and started to engulf the full house. I knew immediately it was time to abandon ship.
"I shouted for everyone to get out and we all ran outside in our socks, without shoes or phones or any of our possessions on us at all.
"It was lucky it was earlier in the evening and we were all downstairs together because normally the kids retreat to their rooms at night and I dread to think what could have happened then because the smoke just filtered through the house as soon as I opened that door."
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