PICTURES from the scene show the blackened state of the property, smashed windows, melted guttering and windows at the house in Rosamond Street.
The blaze in Daubhill this morning killed a mother and her three children, the father jumped from a first floor window.
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He tried to break down the door from the outside but was unable to, it took four firefighters using specialist equipment to get into the home.
The mother and her children have been named by Bolton Council of Mosques as 40-year-old, Anisha Umerji and Hammad, aged 12, Yusuf, aged 10 and Khadija Umerji, aged five.
The father has been named locally as Zubair.
Tony Hunter, assistant county officer at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, described how the mother and three children were found on the first floor of the property, after firefighters tackled 'intense heat' to get to them.
One child was declared dead at the scene, Greater Manchester Police said earlier today, but the mother and two other children were taken away in an ambulance but later died.
The children, two boys and a girl are all under the age of 13.
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