HEROIC firefighters rescued three children from a smoke-filled bedroom in a burning house.
The youngsters, aged one, four, and six, were rescued by firefighters from a house in Princes Street, Southend.
It is thought the fire started at around 3.30am today, Sunday. Station officer Barry May from Southend Fire Station said: "Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the heavily smoke logged house to extinguish the fire in the downstairs bedroom.
“The fire is believed to have started when a pillow had fallen onto a LPG gas heater and caught fire.
"Three children aged, six, four and one where rescued by firefighters from a heavily smoke logged bedroom upstairs. The mother and children were all placed in the care of the ambulance service suffering from smoke inhalation."
The fire was extinguished shortly after 4am. FULL REPORT IN MONDAY'S ECHO
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