A WOMAN jumped to safety out of a first floor window following a fire at her home in Marske.
Firefighters were called to the fire at Dovecote Close, Marske, just after midnight on Tuesday.
Two crews from Redcar and one from Saltburn used a hose reel, two breathing apparatus and a thermal imaging camera to extinguish the blaze.
The fire is thought to have been caused by an electrical fault.
The woman, in her 50s, jumped on to the first floor roof, then to safety. A man who called the fire brigade also managed to get out of the house but the family's two cats died in the blaze.
The woman refused to go to hospital although she was suffering from shock and smoke inhalation.
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