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00:00What happened?

00:09I woke up to a couple of bangs, because my bedroom window kind of looks directly at their

00:15front door.

00:16So, yeah, I woke up to a couple of bangs and I was like, what's that?

00:19And then it happened again downstairs and I saw an orange flash and I was like, that's

00:24weird.

00:25And then I sort of like, didn't go back to sleep, but kind of walked away from the window.

00:32And then I came back out, I heard the boys screaming, and I came back out and the whole

00:35back of the house was on fire.

00:37So the boys, do you mean the neighbours?

00:38The neighbours, yeah, that live there.

00:39Yeah.

00:40So, yeah, I came out and, sorry, looked out the window again and saw that the whole back

00:45of the house was on fire.

00:46And they were trying to put it out.

00:48And yeah, it just, it went up really, really quick.

00:51I mean, obviously, you know, triple O, big cold.

00:55So the fire brigade were here pretty quick.

00:58But yeah, it is crazy how quickly that happens, the whole house.

01:01Like, yeah.

01:02Did you manage to get anything out or are you worried about your place?

01:05No, well, I've got a, yeah, I jumped in the car with, I've got a cat, so I jumped in the

01:10car with the cat and just drove across the road, just drove around the block and across

01:13the road, just in case.

01:16And yeah, and as I drove out, I could see the fire brigade already coming.

01:20So, thank God.

01:21But yeah, it was super quick.

01:23That happened really, really quickly.

01:25That's scary.

01:26Yeah.