A GLUSBURN mother and her 23-month-old son escaped a blaze in their home yesterday afternoon (Thursday).
Emma Benn was upstairs with her son, Daniel, when she smelt smoke and realised there was a fire in their Croftfield Terrace house.
She said: "I dashed back upstairs to grab the little one and get him out as quick as I could.
"I threw something over his face and my only priority was to get him out."
Unsure whether or not she could get down the stairs and outside, she telephoned the emergency services and grabbed her son.
They managed to escape via the stairs, and although an ambulance attended, neither mother nor son needed hospital treatment.
It was exactly a week, almost to the hour, since Emma and her husband, Shaun Benn, walked up the aisle and her wedding dress was one of the casualties of the fire.
She had brought it downstairs to look at it and left it beside the lamp where the fire started.
Among the items destroyed were Christmas presents and Daniel's train set.
"The things are immaterial, but they were his Christmas presents," added Mrs Benn.
It is the second fire in the couple's home in a year and Mr Benn said they were only just getting straight from the last one in February.
Mrs Benn added: "Someone up there doesn't like us very much. But we are all OK and that's the main thing."
The fire was contained in the living room, where the couple had moved a lamp to make room for a Christmas tree and used an extension cable across the floor.
Mr Benn warned other householders to be careful with electrical appliances, particularly at this time of year.
The couple's dog was given oxygen as a precaution, even though the emergency services did not know whether it was in the house at the time of the fire.
Four appliances attended the blaze which occurred at 12.40pm on Thursday. It took firefighters an hour to contain the fire.
Assistant Divisional Officer Stuart Stoney of Skipton Fire and Rescue Service, told the Herald he believed the cause of the fire may be electrical.
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