Six evacuated from Brierley Hill house after bedroom fire
Four children and two adults were evacuated from a house in Brierley Hill after a fire in a bedroom.
A first floor bedroom was left severely smoke damaged after it is believed a quilt caught fire after electrical equipment overheated in Belle Isle in Brockmoor at 6.30pm tonight.
The family-of-six were alerted to the fire by smoke alarms and left the property and called the fire service.
Two crews from Brierley Hill and Stourbridge attended the blaze - and used breathing apparatus inside the property to extinguish the fire.
Watch Commander Roy Whitehead said: "The bedroom was mostly smoke and heat damaged and the first floor smoked logged.
"We believe electrical transformers overheated after being covered with a quilt by accident.
"The damage by fire is not as bad as it could have been but the smoke and heat damage is extensive."
Nobody was hurt in the fire.
