A mum has described the moment her daughter shouted "mummy there is smoke" after she saw a fire had broke out in her bedroom as she went to get a toy.
Leah Carberry says she has "lost everything" after a massage gun left on charge in her daughter's bedroom caught fire. The fire ripped through the second floor of her house on Grasmere Gardens in Crosby.
Leah had been giving her children a bath when her oldest daughter, Alice asked to go up to her room to get a toy. Alice then called downstairs and shouted "mummy there is smoke" Leah then ran upstairs and saw the fire, grabbed her children, and ran into the street.
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Leah told the ECHO: "I have a downstairs bathroom so I ran upstairs and as I pushed the door to her room open there was just big black smoke that blew me back and there were flames everywhere. I did not know what to do and ran outside.
"I stood outside and all the glass from the upstairs windows was popping and you could hear all the plaster crashing onto the stairs. The roof on my house was just completely black."
The fire was caused by a massage gun that had been put on charge in her daughter's room that morning. Leah said the smoke alarm for the upstairs landing had been taken down while the house was getting renovated as she had only moved into the house along with her three children in May this year.
"I have never been so traumatised in all my life and I have probably slept for an hour since Tuesday. We have lost everything, the kids have no clothes we have nothing left.
"A lot of it was new because we had just moved it but now it is just ash. The three upstairs bedrooms were destroyed and all the ceilings have collapsed from the water damage when the fire was being put out."
Leah has now moved into her mum's house and does not think she will be able to leave for the foreseeable future. The mum said she is trying to "get through each day".
Leah, 31, said: "The most important thing is that the kids and I are alive but all our belongings are gone. It has been so draining and I'm up and down at the moment.
"I have cried and laughed while trying to stay positive and if it had happened in the night my kids would not be here now. It has been brutal we could have died."
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