Olu said the family, who had recently been forced to rely on food banks, have ‘gone from struggling day to day’ to ‘not knowing where we’ll be sleeping the next night’.
Mum Jenny, and her children Somto and Olu managed to escape unharmed but have lost everything in the fire
in a bid to get the family back on their feet and hopefully fix their home, which has been deemed ‘unliveable’ by the fire service.Olu told Metro.co.uk: ‘We have lived there 10 years last month and it doesn’t even look like our home anymore. It’s so shocking. In almost every single room, every part of the ceiling has come off. Anything the fire didn’t get, the smoke got, and anything the smoke didn’t get, the water did.’‘We haven’t been able to recover any pictures, or documents, or anything.
Olu said she was enjoying a night in watching TV on August 12 when she realised something was wrong. At around 8.30pm, she heard a ‘click’ and the television screen turned off. Olu ran to grab her phone and dialled 999. Just as the operator asked which service she required, her mum grabbed a stick and opened a trap door to the attic.
‘We had no idea there was a fire inside the house, we were just sitting there,’ she said. ‘You couldn’t smell it – the fire alarm wasn’t going off, nothing.’ Olu lost her grandmother and aunt within a month of each other, while Jenny, 60, has put ‘everything’ into divorcing an abusive partner. The family have since had to rely on food banks and help from others to get by.
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