UPDATE: Neighbours tried to save woman who died in Petts Wood house fire (From News Shopper)

UPDATE: Neighbours tried to save woman who died in Petts Wood house fire

2:32pm Friday 17th February 2012 in News By Rachel Conner

A ROOFER has described how neighbours tried to save a woman who has died in a house fire in Petts Wood.

Firefighters were called to an address in Fairway at 12.20pm.

Jay Hosier, 32, who was working on a roof at a nearby house, saw smoke and raised the alarm.

He said: “I saw smoke so I rang the fire brigade and went over there.

“The dad [of the woman in the house] pulled up in car.

"The dad and the next door neighbour were really brave. They went in but it was too hot for them.

“There was thick black smoke everywhere. We tried to open the back door but it was locked so we broke the window and put a hose pipe through.

“The fire brigade were very good, it took them about eight minutes to put it out.”

Four fire engines and two ambulances attended the scene.

It is believed the deceased was the only person in the property at the time.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said a man and a woman were taken to the Princess Royal University Hospital in Farnborough suffering from smoke inhalation.