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North Wingfield fire: Girl, 7, tried getting help from neighbours North Wingfield fire: 'Missed opportunity' to raise alarm
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A girl unsuccessfully tried to alert neighbours to a house fire that killed her mother and three others, an inquest has heard. There was a "missed opportunity" to raise the alarm during a house fire which killed two women and two children, a coroner has said.
Josie Leighton, 32, her two sons Tyler Green, nine, and Jordan Green, 12, and Claire James, 27, died in the fire in North Wingfield, Derbyshire in 2013.Josie Leighton, 32, her two sons Tyler Green, nine, and Jordan Green, 12, and Claire James, 27, died in the fire in North Wingfield, Derbyshire in 2013.
Seven-year-old Tia James escaped from the house and tried to get help. The inquest was told a neighbour heard a smoke alarm and went back to sleep.
Chesterfield Coroner's Court heard a neighbour had woken and seen smoke in her house but fell back to sleep. But the coroner said there was nothing to suggest raising an early alarm would have made a "material difference".
Reading a statement from Tia, the coroner said she had tried to knock on neighbours' doors after waking up and noticing the fire but did not get a response. Ms James's neighbour, Sarah Hempshall, said she was woken by noises at about 01:30 GMT on 20 November.
She was later found by firefighters in the garden suffering from smoke inhalation. She told the inquest at Chesterfield Coroner's Court: "I thought they were cooking something at first and then I thought why are they cooking something?
Neighbour Sarah Hempshall, told the coroner she had earlier been woken by banging, shouting and singing coming from the house at about 01:30 GMT on 20 November. "It is since then that I found out what that smell was."
The fire then broke out in the house shortly before 05:00 GMT. Ms Hempshall woke again at about 03:00, but only called emergency services at about 05:00, when she found smoke in her own home.
Ms Hempshall said despite hearing a smoke alarm, and seeing smoke in her home, she went back to sleep. The inquest also heard that seven-year-old Tia James, the daughter of Claire James, escaped the house and knocked for help at a neighbour's home.
She said it was not until much later that she realised the full extent of what had happened next door. James Newman, Assistant Coroner for Derbyshire, said: "From Tia's evidence she recalls going downstairs, grabbing a blanket and pillow and making her way outside, trying to rouse the neighbours, from which unfortunately she got no response."
After an investigation Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was "caused by a fault in electrical wiring between the ground and first floor" of the house. Firefighters later found Tia in the back garden suffering from smoke inhalation and hypothermia.
'Plasticky smoke'
The girl told police that during the fire she recalled her mother saying: "Let's get everybody downstairs."
She was able to get out because she was smaller than the others, meaning she was below the smoke, the hearing was told.
Another neighbour, Ian Shaw, said he heard a girl shouting "Mum" at about 01:30 GMT when he went to take his dog outside.
He said he felt guilty and apologised for not going to have a look.
The women and two boys died from inhaling "plasticky thick dense smoke" in the fire, which was caused by faulty electrical wiring.
The coroner concluded the deaths were accidental.