A WOMAN broke down as she was quizzed about the night a blaze broke out in her home, leading to the death of two firefighters.
Kirsty Hoffman cried as she told an inquest how she “didn’t realise” firefighters could be hurt or injured as they tried to tackle the blaze at Shirley Towers in Southampton.
At the hearing yesterday, the mumof- two was accused of “walking away” from the burning split-level flat to seek refuge in her mother’s home four floors above, leaving neighbours to call 999 and raise the alarm.
The inquest heard how neither Mrs Hoffman nor her husband Karl Hoffman reported the emergency because they had left their three mobile phones in the lounge, where the blaze began.
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