The victim of a chip pan fire who almost died in her new home has been given a gift of free kitchen windows.

Businesswoman Christine Scourfield, of Storr Hill, Wyke, was seconds away from death after the blaze at her home in March.

The home was uninsured as Mrs Scourfield had only moved into it in January, but tough financial times are being turned around by the donation of kitchen windows by Bradford firm Coral Windows.

She said: "My daughter had been in touch with them and told them about the fire.

"They must have been really touched by it because they offered to replace the kitchen windows for free.

"I have had the family round painting the kitchen and clearing up the house and my neighbours have been so supportive."

Fire crews said at the time that Mrs Scourfield, a partner in a golf clothing company based in Wharf Street, Shipley, would have died if she had been in the house any longer.

The blaze began after she started cooking chips and then fell asleep in her lounge at about 2am on March 25. A neighbour saw the flames and rang 999.

She said: "It's only because the fire brigade was here within two minutes that I'm alive. I'd stopped breathing by the time they came and I had to have mouth-to-mouth.

"If the lounge door wasn't closed the flames would have reached me much sooner. I'd have died if I hadn't remebered to keep to the floor.

"All I remember was waking up and seeing black. I could hardly make out where I was or what was going on, I just kept scrambling about on the floor until passing out."

The replacement window would have cost Mrs Scourfield about £500 had she bought it.

John Valente, one of the owners of Coral Windows in Halifax Road, said: "The family got in touch with us as asked if we could help, it just seemed the right thing to do.

"The window measures about 8ft by 5ft and we've fitted it with a fire escape should Mrs Scourfield need it."

Mrs Scourfield, a divorcee with three adult children, said since her ordeal all her family and friends had fitted smoke alarms and now took fire safety more seriously.

She is still not able to write or read properly as the severe smoke inhalation, which kept her in hospital for more than a week, affected her vision and concentration.

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