A couple who challenged the evacuation procedures at a tower block after a blaze engulfed a balcony of one of the flats have been assured everything was in order. Ryan Wood and his partner Pixie were visiting Mr Wood’s brother, who lives on the ninth floor of Midhurst Court in Mote Road in Maidstone. On Monday afternoon, a fire broke out on the balcony of a flat on the fifth floor of the 13-storey tower block, prompting a large response of six fire engines and a height vehicle. But Mr Wood, 28, said the three remained blissfully ignorant of what was happening until he and his brother went to g…
