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A hero dad dramatically rescued his family from a blaze which ripped through the kitchen of their Barnsbury home.

Aydin Sabaz managed to get his wife, 14-month-old son and two parents to safety despite having no fire alarm in the house.

He woke up choking on Sunday after the spare room he was sleeping in became engulfed in smoke at 6.30am.

“I couldn’t breathe properly and my eyes were wet,” Mr Sabaz, 37, told the Tribune. “I tried to get up but I couldn’t. I crawled along the floor and picked up a bottle of water and poured it over my head.”

He woke his wife and son and guided them past the flames before reaching the front door and escaping.

“My wife was so scared. I couldn’t see, it was totally black,” he added.

Mr Sabaz, a street trader in Walthamstow, could barely stand up straight due to the thick smoke but went back upstairs to save his ­parents. His 58-year-old father struggles to walk due to a health problem.

“My mother did not want to leave the room but I said she had to go,” Mr Sabaz said.

He carried his father out on his back while a neighbour rang the fire brigade.

“The rest is a blur, I was just in shock,” Mr Sabaz said.

Four fire engines and 21 firefighters and officers from Euston, Islington and Kentish Town stations attended the scene.

The brigade was called at 7am and the fire was under control just under an hour later.

“The firefighters, the ambulance and our neighbours have all been very kind,” Mr Sabaz said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation but it is thought it started with a faulty freezer which the family bought in Enfield nine months ago.

Mr Sabaz has lived in the two-storey maisonette in Treaty Street for more than 20 years but they did not have a fire alarm or insurance.

“You don’t think something like this will happen,” he said. “The main thing is that everybody is safe – it doesn’t matter about the house.”

The family were all taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service and treated for smoke inhalation but are all now doing well. They are staying with family elsewhere while the house clean-up gets under way.

Mr Sabaz said he would be getting a fire alarm fitted once the house was in order.

“We Turkish people like barbecues, but not this much,” he joked.

A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said: “Everyone should have at least one smoke alarm on every level of your home and the safest option is to have those linked together. This will give the earliest warning if there is a fire in your home.”

There has been a spate of fire-related deaths in Islington in recent months, including John Ball, near Angel,

Dr Claire Sheppey, from Canonbury, and Raymond Lister, from Barnsbury.