Tributes paid to parents killed in house fire as their toddler fights for life

A tribute from Joshua’s family issued by Lancashire Police said: ‘Joshua was a much-loved son, that will be sorely missed, who adored his girlfriend and children.’

While the force said the female victim is yet to be formally identified, they said it was believed to be Danielle Bamber and shared a statement from her family.

It read: ‘We as a family are devastated by what has happened to Danielle our daughter and her family.

Josh Pearson, 28, and Danielle Bamber, 24, were killed after the blaze ripped through their terraced home in Blackpool, Lancs. Release date ? July 18, 2024. Heartbroken family memebers have paid tribute to a ?beautiful? couple who died in a house fire - which left their 18-month-old son in a coma. Josh Pearson, 28, and Danielle Bamber, 24, were killed after the blaze ripped through their terraced home in Blackpool, Lancs., yesterday (Weds). Fire crews arrived at the address on Peter Street in the early hours of the morning, where mum-of-two Danielle was sadly pronounced dead. Josh was then rushed to hospital where he also later passed away. Their sons Oscar, six, and Lorenzo, 18 months, were rescued from the fire and given emergency treatment after a neighbour smashed windows at the home to save them. But while Oscar is now in a stable condition, friends have said little Lorenzo is currently in a coma in hospital. — Joshua Pearson and Danielle Bamber were killed while their children are in hospital (Picture: Courtesy Codie Lee /SWNS)

A police officer near a house in Blackpool after a man and a woman died and their two children are in hospital after a house fire. Firefighters and police officers were called to an address in Peter Street at 2.39am on Wednesday to reports of a blaze with people inside. A woman aged in her 20s was found deceased while a man, also aged in his 20s, was later pronounced dead at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Picture date: Wednesday July 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story FIRE Blackpool. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire — The fire ripped through the house (Picture: PA)

Kara-Marie Pearson told how her partner, Jake Hartill saved the older child from the flames after smashing a glass panel in the front door of the house.

The couple, who live on the same street, were woken up at around 2.30am by an ‘almighty bang’ and saw the entire downstairs of the house was engulfed in flames.

They were unable to help the other occupants of the house, with Kara-Marie explaining: ‘All I could hear was the dad screaming out “Help! Help! Help!”

‘Me and my partner, we’ve ran down, the first thing he’s done is, he’s got a bat and he’s smashed the window in the door and as he’s smashed it, the little boy was behind it, he’s lifted him out and got him out, while the dad’s still screaming upstairs.

‘And obviously Dad had stopped shouting at this point, so smoke must have got to him.

‘Obviously the fire brigade and that just come, but we could only get that little boy out. Mum, dad and the baby, we couldn’t get out it was too dangerous.’