Overview
- Emergency services were alerted before 3.45am on Tuesday and crews arrived within minutes to find a semi‑detached home well alight and spreading rapidly.
- Firefighters from six engines and two NWAS Hazardous Area Response Team members searched the property and discovered four people dead in an upstairs bedroom while a fifth casualty was taken to hospital with serious burns.
- The victims have been named as Elisha Brabin, 36, and her children Leo, 16, Ellis, eight, and Prudence, seven, and their next of kin have been informed.
- Local people and schools have left flowers, toys and tributes and a GoFundMe and mobile police station have been set up to support the family and reassure the community.
- Forensic teams remain at the scene and investigators say the joint inquiry is complex so the cause has not yet been confirmed with further witness enquiries and forensic work continuing.