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A COUPLE who were rescued from their blazing Town flat spoke yesterday of their ordeal

Kevin Davies, 47, and Tracey Enticott, 41, who have been together for four years, said they felt lucky to be alive. The couple said it would have been a different story had it not been for a smoke alarm in the property.

Mr Davies, who turned 47 on the day of the fire, had been out celebrating with friends, returning home at about 11pm.

The fire broke out just after 2am on Sunday and is believed to have been started deliberately. ‘It was lucky that it worked,’ said Miss Enticott. ‘We wouldn’t be here. We would have just slept through it.’

They were woken by the alarm and found smoke billowing outside their bedroom. Their exit was where the fire was burning, so the couple had no option but to climb onto the roof.

‘Tracey got out through the window and I followed,’ said Mr Davies.

‘I thought she had fallen as the drainpipe collapsed. We just hung on to the window screaming for a good 15 minutes.’