Mother left scared after car fire scorches garden fence
A 'horrendous' blaze which erupted outside a mother's home and tore across her garden fencing has left her feeling 'unsafe'.
Kiran Hussain woke in the early hours of the morning to raging flames sweeping across a BMW parked behind her Whitmore Reams home.
The 31-year-old, who initially thought guns were being fired behind her house, has been left terrified intruders will now slip through the burnt-out fence and into her home.
She said: "I have never woken up so scared in my life. The more I think about it, the more I think it could have been much worse.
"It's horrible, my garden feels exposed. I don't feel safe. We don't want somebody jumping the fence."
The mother-of-one, who lives at her Farndale Avenue home with her husband, son and teenage brother, thought a car had backfired or gun shots had been launched when she was awoken at about 5.30am.
She 'discreetly' peered through a window before realising the car had been abandoned behind her garden and was on fire in nearby Crosby Close.
The mother rushed to her pregnant neighbour's home, altering the family to the crisis after other residents called the fire service.
She added: "I opened the front door and all I could see were the flames going up. I was just thinking 'oh my God, this is spreading, what do we do?'.
"The smell just hits you. All I was thinking was I have got to get my family out."
Firefighters hurried to the scene, extinguishing the inferno after about half-an-hour of battling the flames on Tuesday, Mrs Hussain said.
Mrs Hussain said she was 'absolutely disgusted' police officers had not managed to call round to the street following the blaze despite their reassurances they will investigate the fire.
She added: "They have just made me feel, 'it's happened, it's not that big, we have got bigger things to do'."
West Midlands Police confirmed it had been alerted to the fire, with officers hoping to attend the scene and the owner of the vehicle.
West Midlands Fire Service also confirmed two fire engines were deployed to the scene.
Mrs Hussain said she was told by Wolverhampton council it plans to replace the scorched fence as her home backs on to council-owned land.
