Two people dead after house fire amid fears it could be linked to A66 crash

Sarah Hooper | Live News Reporter Published August 26, 2026 12:00pm Updated August 26, 2026 12:00pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A murder investigation has been launched after two people died in a house fire in Grangetown near Middlesbrough this morning. The incident comes as the town is still mourning the deaths of seven people, including two police officers, in a crash on the A66 in the early hours of Saturday. Police, ambulance, fire and rescue and Northern Gas Networks remain at the scene of the blaze on Birchington Avenue, Grangetown. Residents who’d woken to news of the fire told how two people were missing, while two others had been able to escape from the house. A relative of the family who lived in t