A WIDNES mum is fighting for her life after being critically burnt in a flat fire.

Mum-of-three Nora Hughes suffered extensive burns in a blaze at her home on Margaret Court at around 5am on Friday.

Doctors at Whiston Hospital warned her family the 46-year-old might not pull through, but she is now starting to show signs of recovery.

Her son Michael, 29, said: “She is still in critical danger and in an induced coma.

“Until Monday doctors said she only had a 15 per cent chance of survival.

“Now they say she is fighting back and they might try to wake her up.

“It is looking promising.

“She has burns to her face, arms, neck and back, everywhere apart from her lower leg.

“Her injuries are life changing.

“They started doing skin grafts on the first day.

“The burns team and intensive care team are working miracles on her.”

Michael and his sisters Lynsey, 26, and Katie 25, who are keeping vigil at the hospital, want to thank the good Samaritan who rescued Nora from her burning ground floor flat.

Mum-of-three Lynsey, of Cambridge Street, said: “We are trying to find the man who got her out of the fire.

“He was seen on CCTV smashing the living room window with a piece of wood, grabbing my mum and pulling her out.

“He phoned an ambulance and came and got me as I only live seconds from her.

“Mum must have told him where I live.

“He was Polish but spoke good English.

“I tried to run to my mum but being heavily pregnant I was slow and didn’t see him go.”

She described the man as 6ft tall with dark hair and stubble, a round face, very thin and in his mid 20s.

“He is our hero,” added Lynsey, who is expecting her first son after three daughters.

“We want to thank him and tell him he has given our mum the chance of seeing her grandchildren grow.

“Without him she wouldn’t be here now.

“If he doesn’t want to speak to us I totally understand.

“I can’t get the image out of my head of my mum being so badly burnt lying on the grass.

“She was able to talk to me, but then shock kicked in.

“I can’t imagine how he is feeling.”

Nora only moved to Widnes a couple of weeks ago to be closer to the Zep chemical company on Tanhouse Lane where she worked packaging chemicals.

The grandmother-of-seven used to live in Halton Brook in Runcorn and has lost everything in the fire.

Dad-of-two Michael added: “She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren.

“Lynsey is expecting anytime soon.

“She is having a boy and mum wants her to call him Daniel.

“She wasn’t too keen but now he is getting called Daniel.

“We are all sticking together and helping each other through this.

“Mum is well known. We are constantly receiving messages.

“There are a lot of people who love her.”

Neighbour Michael Holme, 25, of Lugsdale Road, ran to help and sat with Nora until paramedics arrived.

The dad-of-six said: “I shielded her from the smoke and kept talking to her.

“She was covered in burns.”