Family Escape Middlesbrough House Fire

16 September 2013, 07:44 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

A family of five, including two children, have escaped a suspected arson attack in Middlesbrough.

The fire was started at a house in Millbrook Avenue early on Sunday (15th September).

Two women aged 57 and 27, a man, 29, a girl, aged three, and a boy, aged five, all managed to get out of the house.

No-one was badly hurt, but Cleveland Police are treating the blaze as suspicious.

A man's been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and arson.