"I was screaming for everybody to get out" - Eyewitness accounts of huge blaze in Leeds

The scene of the fire. PICS: Robbie Walker and Claire Wilde

Residents heard two loud explosions and smelled gas in the early hours of this morning as a huge fire took hold at a building supplies business in Leeds.

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Firefighters remain on the scene of the fire, at the Jewson site in Moor Road, Hunslet, where an office and shop building has partially collapsed and a timber yard is blackened.

Police evacuated about 30 back-to-back terraced homes on Moor Road and nearby Lake Terrace as the flames grew.

One of those evacuated was 16-year-old Sophie Major, of Lake Terrace, directly opposite the site.

She said the first to wake up had been their Staffordshire bull terrier, Storm, shortly after 2am.

She said: "My boyfriend was woken up by a gassy smell. He got up because he thought somebody was in the house.

"I was in bed and I heard these two loud explosions.

"There was one, then a five or 10 second interval, then another.