A GRANDMOTHER feared she would have to throw her newborn granddaughter out of the window to save her from a fire which destroyed their home.

Vasso Murphy was at home in Green Lane, Palmers Green, with her husband, Eddie, daughter, Vasilki, 20, and grandchildren, Kyella, four and Elizabeth, three weeks, when smoke and flames filled the flat.

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The 42-year-old started to panic and ran to wake a sleeping Kyella moments before an explosion caused the windows to shatter all over the bed where she had been sleeping.

Battling through the thick, plumes of smoke which threatened to block their way, the family finally made it to the fire escape in the kitchen only for the door to jam.

Mrs Murphy, who has painful arthritis, said she considered throwing her grandchildren out of the window of their third floor flat for the onlookers below to catch.

She said: “Vasiliki started to scream and said smoke filled the flat. There was an explosion and the house shook. I started panicking and ran to get Kyella.

“I saved her life just in time – two seconds later we could have both been dead. There was another explosion which sounded like a car crash.

“I was very emotional, I just wanted to save the kids. I didn’t think about myself. When we couldn’t open the fire door at first, I was planning on throwing them out hoping someone could catch them.”

When Mr Murphy, 49, managed to break the door down the family clambered down the fire escape and into the arms of strangers who had gathered to help.

Mrs Murphy relies on blood pressure medication and crutches and when reality finally took in, she was left shaken and in pain.

She added: “I was shaking and crying, I couldn’t breathe and I was in agony. But all that was going through my mind was that we were alive. I didn’t care, we’d got everybody out.

“In seconds, you can lose everything. It’s all in ashes.

“But I am so proud of the firemen who dealt with everything so quickly, the strangers who helped and my son’s friend, Azaro. I am so, so grateful.”

Enfield Council housed them in a Travel Lodge after the August 14 fire, before moving them to Harlow temporarily.

The following day, the family, who moved to England from Cyprus 13 years ago, went back to their home of two years and were left devastated at seeing it in ruins.

Three weeks on from the fire, family friend Georgia Melaris has launched a GoFundMe page to gather donations for the family to help them reclaim what they lost.

The kind-hearted woman has been collecting and delivering items, and donated money from her own pocket to help the family find their feet.

Mrs Murphy added: “Everything in my house has been burnt – it’s terrible. The baby’s clothes, photographs, everything we’d saved for years is all gone.

“We have to go back to zero, we have to start from scratch.”

To donate, visit https://www.gofundme.com/2jtnmj9w