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A ‘RAGING blaze’ erupted from a shed and spread across several garden buildings in Tipner.

Firefighters rushed to fight the fire at Childe Square just before 3pm yesterday.

Eyewitness Dani Geddes said she initially smelt burning as she was sat in a pool in her garden with her family.

She told The News: ‘Within moments we could hear neighbours two doors down screaming fire.

‘We jumped up and looked towards their property and saw a raging blaze.

‘It was so hot and felt so unbearable.

‘A friend of mine who lives on Tipner Lane was calling me telling us to get out the house, saying it’s going to catch the fences.’

Ms Geddes described the fire as ‘sudden’, ‘fierce’, and ‘explosive’.

She captured video footage of the shed fire from her upstairs window.

The photographer said there was an explosion from where it started.

‘After I stopped filming there was a big explosion and it was very scary,’ she said.

‘Immediately we got out of the house and went over the road to safety.

‘I even grabbed our animals in a moment of panic.’

Ms Geddes added that her and her mum watched on as the firefighters arrived – terrified that the row of houses would catch fire one by one.

She said one of the crew members at the scene suspected a gas bottle inside the shed caused the explosion.

No one was injured in the inferno but several things were burnt.

Ms Geddes said: ‘Our friend’s garden and our building was damaged by fire and water.

‘We’re all so relieved it wasn’t any worse.

‘Seconds before this fire erupted there were children playing in their pool right next to it.

‘They are sad their pool and garden toys have been destroyed but we are so thankful they are unharmed.’

Firefighters battle 'raging blaze' that erupted from shed and ripped across other outbuildings and gardens in Tipner, Portsmouth