A FOURTEEN-month-old girl received hospital treatment after being rescued from a Grimethorpe house fire by a neighbour.

Baby Cherie’s mum, Tracey Ashcroft, had already managed to get out of the house with her two daughters and eight-week-old baby boy, Marley, but had been unable to reach the little girl.

Neighbour David Steele, 33, went into the smoke-filled house to save the tot, who was in a cot in the bedroom, before the fire brigade arrived.

The youngster and her sisters, Tamika, seven and Aneesha, four, were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation.

Tamika is also believed to have suffered burns to her arm.

The blaze started at 8.30pm last Thursday when a mattress on the floor of the front upstairs bedroom of the house on Manor Crescent caught fire.

The bedroom was gutted and the upstairs severely damaged, and the semi-detached council house is uninhabitable because of the extent of the smoke damage.

Modest Mr Steele was too upset to talk but a neighbour said he noticed smoke coming from the windows. Leslie Hibbert, said: “I saw smoke coming through the window and when I went out they said a little lass had been burnt." The police were at the scene on Friday morning and fire investigators attended but a fire spokesman said the cause of the blaze is was being treated as accidental.