A MOTHER has put her teenage daughter into hiding after their house was ravaged by fire in a suspected arson attack.

A woman who was trapped in her St Peter Port home by fire spoke yesterday of how her son screamed at her to ‘save herself’.

POLICE are investigating a potential arson with intent to endanger life after two people had to be rescued from a house fire early today.

A MODEST Pont Vaillant resident who pulled three children out of a blazing house has said he is no hero.

THE quick actions of a Pont Vaillant Estate resident saved the lives of three small children from a burning house yesterday evening.

TOXIC smoke billowed over parts of Forest yesterday morning as thousands of tyres went up in flames as residents slept.

HEALTH and Safety has said that the health risk posed by a burning garage with asbestos in its roof in Alderney was ‘minimal’.

A QUICK-THINKING recruitment worker helped to save a building in Upper Mansell Street from going up in flames.

A HEALTH and safety expert from Guernsey was called in to Alderney yesterday to advise  how best to remove concrete asbestos exposed during a blaze at a storage depot.

ALL of Alderney’s volunteer firefighters spent more than four hours battling a huge blaze which broke out at a builder’s store in St Anne’s.