Mum faints in street watching family house burn down in fire started by tumble dryer

Brothers Bola Akintola and Eni Luwoye outside their wrecked home (Picture: Ryan Massey/Cover Images)

A mum fainted in the street as she watched her family’s home burn to the ground.

Bukola Akinpelu and her sons have ‘lost everything’ after a fire broke out in their tumble dryer and destroyed the semi-detached house in Allington, Kent within half an hour.

The family were left with just the clothes they had been sleeping in after Eni Luwoye, 26, heard a smoke alarm blaring downstairs around 1.30am on Monday while he was upstairs doing university work.

He went to investigate, opened the door to the utility room and saw it full of ‘clear grey smoke’. Eni said the dryer was ‘spinning round with...