A young family had a lucky escape after a fire broke out in the kitchen of their terraced house on West Street in the Beighton area of Sheffield this morning.

Fire Crews were called to the house at 3.44am.  To find the family in the front bedroom of the property, after Fire Control staff had given vital fire survival guidance to the mother. 

The family which included two adults, three children - two boys aged seven and eleven, and a girl aged nine, and the family dog a Staffordshire Bull Terrier were all rescued by firefighters who led them safely down ladders which were placed up to the window of the bedroom..

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel to extinguish the fire, which is thought to have started due to a faulty extractor hood in the kitchen.

There were no smoke alarms in the property. 

Crew Manager Wayne Barker from Aston Station said:  "Control staff and firefighters did a terric job to perform such a swift and effective rescue.  The family are very lucky.  I would urge everyone to have a working smoke alarm on each level of their home and to check it once a week to make sure that it is working."

Fire Crews left the scene at 5.20am.