Family is rescued after Willenhall blaze scare
A mother and her four children were today rescued by firefighters after a smoke cannister was hurled into her kitchen.
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The woman, in her 40s, was trapped upstairs at the house in Treetops Drive, Willenhall and believed a blaze was downstairs. But a cannister had been thrown through a window creating of smoke.
When firefighters arrived at about 1am, the two boys and two girls, aged between 14 and six, were calling for help.
Watch commander Andrew Williams, of Willenhall Fire Station, said firefighters broke in through the front door and led the family to safety.
