Family with eight-week-old baby lose everything in devastating fire which killed beloved dog

A young family are grieving the loss of their dog after a devastating fire ripped through their home. Jordon Larkin was working away in Newcastle when he received a call from a neighbour about the blaze at home in Rochdale.

Luckily, his partner Kerrie Sherwen, their eight-week-old baby Joshua, and Kerrie's 12-year-old son Jack were out of the house. But as their one-year-old dog Buddy tried to escape from the fire by hiding upstairs, he was killed by the smoke.

The family's belongings have also been ruined, while Jordon believes the inside of his home is now 'beyond repair'. "We're just very fortunate that we were out," Jordon told the Manchester Evening News.

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"The whole house is black from wall to wall. It's so dark in there."

The fire began in the kitchen of the Duke Street property on Tuesday (April 4) and is believed to have followed an electrical fault. Firefighters were called out after the family's neighbours began to smell smoke.

Jordon and Kerrie had new clothes and items for little Joshua at the property, but the couple have been told the items can't be saved. While Jack has belongings at his dad's property, almost everything else the family had has been ruined.

Jordon said: "I had my suitcase with me because I was working away, I had a couple of bits of clothes. There was one door that was closed in the house and that was to the lounge, so there's a television probably we can clean up if it works.

"But [the fire service] advised us any fabrics in there - we've got baby clothes that have been given to us from family, friends, or what we've bought. He's only eight