A CLOSE-KNIT community was today still trying to come to terms with the tragic death of a nine-year-old girl following a house fire in Deepdale.

Nazneen Manman died and her three brothers were seriously injured when flames swept through their terraced home in Kingfisher Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning (July 12).

Neighbours were awoken after hearing the desperate screams of mother, Fazila, shouting: "Help us, help us. My kids are inside. They are going to die."

Yasin Vali, 35, who lives just three doors down, described how everyone on the street rallied get the family out of the burning house.

He said: "Within seconds of hearing the screams people were outside trying to help. We brought ladders out on to the street.

"The fire brigade came and then broke the downstairs windows in an attempt to get them out. It was horrible."

One man even attempted to break down the door with his bare feet. The three brothers Nieem, eight, Usman, seven, and three-month-old Mohammed are described as 'comfortable' after being transferred from the Royal Preston Hospital to Manchester's Booth Hall children's hospital.

Both parents Saeed, 38, and Fazila, 35, who run a nearby Post Office on Deepdale Road, are recovering in the RPH.

Detectives investigating say they are not treating the fire as suspicious.

A spokesman for Lancashire Fire and Rescue, said: "What we do know at this stage is that the house was not equipped with smoke alarms, so there was no early warning.

"Due to the intensity of the heat and flames and the toxicity, particularly carbon monoxide, the brothers had to be treated in a decompression tank."