Couple and daughter die in fire horror
A COUPLE and their youngest daughter were killed by a blaze which ripped through their home early on Sunday morning.
Daniel Rudge, 29, his wife Kaylie, 28, and Lilly, four, could not be saved by emergency services.
Two boys, aged four and nine, and a seven-year-old girl are said to be in a stable condition in hospital. Daniel’s sister Mandy
Rudge, 31, said: “Words cannot describe how we feel. I’ve lost a brother, sister and niece.
“Kaylie was the most beautiful person in the world and Daniel has the biggest heart in the world. They would do anything for anyone.”
Firefighters and police rushed to the Rudges’ home after receiving 999 calls at 5.30am. The three surviving children were rescued from the end-of-terrace property in Exeter, Devon.
Police have ruled out any thirdparty involvement as a probe into the cause of the blaze continues.
Mandy said: “We have no idea how it started.”
Dan was a member of the Demons motor bike club and fellow member Natalie Anderson has set up a fundraising page for the family. She wrote: “This will help cover costs for funerals, travel, child care and for the other children in the present and future.”
Friend Lauren England added: ”RIP Dan, Kay and Lilly you were amazing friends, husbands, wives, parents and children. May your souls be at peace.
“We will look after your family as much as we can.”
Fiddler crabs were filmed in Darwin, Australia, with a pioneering camera system to reveal what the world looks like to them.
They scare easily, so a cameraman had to lie in mud for hours under a sweltering sun.
Sir David explains: “Recent discoveries revealed some animals can see a characteristic of light that we cannot detect. Sunlight contains rays that vibrate in many different planes. In polarised light they vibrate in only one. Light may become polarised when reflected off a shiny surface, such as water. Unlike us, some animals can see polarised light.”
He adds of the new camera: “It combines vertical and horizontal polarisation to show the contrast between polarised and unpolarised light. The team hope to find out how fiddler crabs use polarised light to signal to one another.”
LIGHT TRICK How a crab looks to us and, inset, to each other