Good Friday miracle as young family lucky escape alive with their three pets after their house collapsed onto them while they slept
- Young family luckily escapes collapsing house
- They got out after the house started shaking
- Cars buried and electrical wires exposed
A young family is lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping when they were awoken in the middle of the night when their home suddenly collapsed.
Fire crews were called to the property in Condell Park, in Sydney‘s west, at 4.30am on Friday after reports the two-storey home had crumbled.
A woman, her partner and their young child had been sleeping when they woke to find their ceiling was beginning to cave in.
As the house began to shake, the family fled to the street.
Photographs taken from the scene show the roof of the home slanted towards the ground with visible damage to the walls.
A young family is lucky to have escaped after their house in Sydney’s west collapsed in the early hours of Friday morning (pictured)
The couple, who were renting the house, managed to get their young child and three pets out of the property
The structure had completely caved in, with cars buried beneath the rubble and under the weight of most of the second story of the home.
Building materials were seen jutting out at all angles, making it difficult to work out what triggered the building to crumble.
Loose electrical wires were also seen poking out from the ceiling and the scene was taped off with yellow caution tape.
The couple, who had been renting the home, managed to rescue their three pets before the home collapsed.
A rescue truck which specialises in structural collapse was taken to the scene, a NSW Fire Service spokesman told NCA NewsWire.
Neighbours told the Daily Telegraph they were startled by what sound like an ‘explosion’ or a ‘car crash’ in the middle of the night.
Christopher Benjamin rents the house next door and said he was terrified when he realised his own home was built by the same builders of the collapsing home.
‘I was scared to get into my house this morning,’ he said.
‘I’m nervous … but the owner told us it is a different design.’
An exclusion zone has been erected around the house and partially onto neighbours property
Investigations into how the newly-built house collapsed will be undertaken by regulators and authorities
An exclusion zone has been erected around the home and partially onto a neighbour’s property.
The residents will be unable to re-enter the home.
Adam Dewberry from NSW Fire and Rescue told 9News there was very little they could do due to the damage.
‘It is pretty unusual,’ he said.
‘It is a very new home. So what’s occurred here will have to be investigated by the regulators and the other authorities and no doubt the owner and insurance.’
