I'm not sure I would have went upstairs first, but I may have gone to take a peek after you came down, it just did not look sturdy enough for one person let alone two.
I enjoyed the link to the local newspaper, chuckled at this line:
A spokesman for the fire service said: "We attended a fire in Garstang overnight involving a building which was fully alight when we arrived.
It was nice of them to attend the fire. Even though our language is the same, (almost), there is such a diversity between American English, English from England, and Australian English.
They were too late, not a lot left!