RESIDENTS were in shock after heavy winds from Storm Malik blew a roof that was under construction on to the top of another Bradford home.

The shocking incident happened late Saturday morning when gale-force winds lifted the partially finished roof of a dormer extension across the street landing on top of another house on Woodside Drive, Cottingley.

Shipley Fire Station was called at 11.12am Saturday to the report of wind damage to the home.

A spokesperson from the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Shipley then requested an aerial appliance from Bradford Fire Station. The aerial was used remove debris from the roof. They then made the building safe and tidied up the bricks."

Shipley crew commander Carl Delamare said: "The house opposite was under construction. There were no windows in the extension so the wind blew in, got underneath it and flipped to the other side of the road."

He said when the roof landed on another house, it "destroyed a chimney stack" and "put a hole in the roof".

Crew commander Delamare said: "It was quite a big roof because the waterproof membrane held it all together. It was straddling both sides of the property.

"They took it down bit by bit and we evacuated the occupants while we did it."

Woodside Road resident, Glen Hodgson, said: "We heard it happen. It was an almighty thud that we could over the top of the TV.

"The wind came up, lifted it straight off and blew it across the road.

"I came out to see and looked and thought 'What's all that debris on the roof?'

"The dormer roof, which must have been at least 60 feet long and 16 feet wide, landed on the roof of the home across the road.

"I remember thinking 'we need to get in touch with the emergency services but someone had already called them'.

"This will probably cost thousands and thousands of pounds in damage."

Another Woodside Drive resident, Helen Raistrick, said: "The house next door is undergoing renovations and there were no windows in it, so it lifted off and blew across the road.

"It chopped the chimney off the house across the road. Somebody could have been killed. It was horrendous. People were in shock.

"I wasn't home at the time, but if had been my car would have been smashed up by tiles that were falling off the roof."