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Fire hero saves


teenagers


■ by Julie Magee ~ crackling and banging sounds 999 on Scott’s mobile phone «- ■: V.:... ■ ■


S - - ■ ,^ y e the lives of a pregnant


and I thought there was some- while hanging out of the front one in the house,” apprentice bedroom window. electrician Scott recalled.


“i jumped up to have a look to cry,” said 3M Neotechnic “I was petrified and started teenager and her p a r tn e r and just saw this big cloud of cleaner Lauren, who is 13


,j t ra p p e d , in a ferocious smoke and an orange ball of weeks’ pregnant. “The stairs t;: house blaze in Clitheroe. flames coming up the stairs.” were totally on fire and I just s;^ -


Lauren The fire, which is believed to couldn’t stop coughing.”


.. Cooper, of Clitheroe, and have been caused by an electri- The couple hung out of the sS c o t t Marshall (17), from cal fault, started at the bot- window as much as they could '• Clayton-le-Moors, became tom of the stairs meaning the and waved a bed sheet in an trapped in the small one-bed- only way the young couple attempt to attract the atten-


j room house on Hall Street could escape was through an tionof the emergency service p after a fire broke out just after upstairs window. 1-30 a.m. on Monday. ’


PC Seed arrived at the scene I \ • S'ik.'r' ': ^r\ ^,'f? I


the police after an electrical fault caused a fire in the early 3^*?. A*aa.M aP


•hours of Monday morning. (A080210/2a) Lauren Cooper (16)'wW were rescued


-man Chris Seed promptly arrived a t the scene and


escape. Luckily, Clitheroe police- mare at first,” Scott said.


. helped save the lives of the . couple who had no means of ■


“I thought it was a night- before the fire took hold of the entire property, parked his


and when I saw the flames L! helped pull the couple out of just panicked.”


“I’ve never seen a fire before Land Rover , outside and - -


“I t must have been about 1- only moved into the rented : 20 a.m. when I first heard the property on Friday, phoned


He immediately woke Lau­ ren before the couple, who had


the window. “The policeman got here, very quickly and parked his


Jimmy Clitheroe’s Cafe


Firearms Act, at Jimmy Clitheroe’s C^e, in New Market Street, at 7-50 a.m. on Monday. Inside the property, they


recovered a stun gim capa­ ble of discharging 10,000 volts. A 46-year-old man


named as Paul McGrath, believed to be the propri­ etor of the cafe, was arrest­ ed and charged with an- offence imder the Firearms Act. He was due to appear . at Hyndbum Magistrates Court yesterday.


Cafe owner in court under Firearms Act


A HIGH voltage stun gun was recovered after an early morning police raid at a Clitheroe cafe. Officers executed a search warrant, issued under the


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