Neighbours rescue family from exploded house
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceUp to 18 neighbours helped pull a woman and two children from the rubble of an exploded house, one of the rescuers has said.on Church Road in Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, at about 14:05 BST on Wednesday.
Both children were flown to Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and the woman was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.Retired firefighter Jeff Davies, who was one of the first on the scene, said he scrambled to the house after hearing a bang and a woman screaming.He told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he and five neighbours rescued the mother from debris in the back of the house while about six pulled the children free.
"Thankfully there must have been about a dozen people at the front of the property and there must have been half a dozen along with myself helping out the back - It was a great community team effort.
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