Overview
- The blaze broke out at about 10.50pm Saturday at a home on Northlands Road in Totton, Hampshire.
- Police said a 25-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene and a man in his 60s is in a life-threatening condition in hospital.
- A neighbour reported the front door blowing open to reveal a “tunnel of fire” after an initial attempt to extinguish a small blaze outside.
- Crews could not reach the upstairs after the staircase was destroyed, and the woman is understood to have been trapped on the upper level.
- Hampshire Police and HIOWFRS are carrying out on-scene inquiries with a cordon and utility teams present, and they have asked the public to avoid speculation.