Two parents who died in a house fire which left their two young children in hospital have been named, as a fundraiser for the family was launched.
Online tributes said Josh Pearson, 28, and 24-year-old Danielle Bamber lost their lives after the blaze broke out at about 2.30am on Wednesday in Blackpool.
Their two sons, aged six and one, are being treated in hospital.
While police have not identified the couple, an appeal has been set up on GoFundMe, which has raised more than £2,000 to pay for a funeral and support the sons.
Launched by Codie Lee, who said Ms Bamber was her “best mate” at school, the fundraising page stated one of the boys was in a coma while the other was “unwell”.
The sons were named as Oscar, who is the older sibling, and Lorenzo.
“Any funds raised will be towards the funeral costs of both Josh and Danielle and anything left over will be for headstones or the boys,” the page stated.
“Their little boys have also been left with nothing due to losing everything in the house fire, no clothes, toys or anything, any little fund make a difference.”
Earlier, Kara-Marie Pearson told how her partner, Jake Hartill, saved a young boy from the fire after smashing a glass panel in the front door of the home with a bat in Peter Street.
“If he hadn’t got that little boy out, he’d be dead,” Ms Pearson said.
“I heard this almighty bang and I looked out my bedroom window and the whole downstairs was literally in flames.
“You couldn’t even see it, it was pure orange. It was like an explosion. All I could hear was the dad screaming out, ‘help, help, help’.”
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She said the boy’s skin was “red hot” and she had to “stand back because the flames came right out”.
“It was like a wildfire, you can’t explain how them flames were,” she said. “And obviously Dad had stopped shouting at this point, so… smoke must have got to him.”
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A police and fire investigation is under way into the cause of the fire, with detectives keeping an “open mind”.
No arrests have been made.
