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Neighbours rally after home goes up in flames

Neighbours rally after home goes up in flames

A Boulder family has been left to pick up the pieces after fire ripped through their home on Friday night.

Emergency services personnel were called to the Dart Street property at 6.43pm, after the fire broke out at the back of the unit.

Flames reached up to 15m and a plume of smoke was visible across the city.

"We'd just sat down for dinner with a glass of wine and a beer when we heard this alarm going off," next-door neighbour Callum Spink told the Kalgoorlie Miner.

"I didn't know if it was my car out the front, so we went out and checked."

Mr Spink said his girlfriend Shaylee Stewart found the woman's youngest child on the front verge, who told them their mother was still inside.

"So I went in to get the mum out," he said.

"The flames were unbearable, they would have been 50 feet high.

"She was coming out just as I went to go in; the smoke was pouring out everywhere."

He said the woman and her children appeared to have been suffering from smoke inhalation, but were otherwise unhurt.

Other neighbours used their garden hoses in an effort to douse the flames, while Mr Spink and others managed to get the woman's car and his own four-wheel-drive away from the property.

Residents praised the quick work of firefighters, who were able to stop the fire from spreading to surrounding properties.

Police blocked off Dart Street at Federal Road and Lionel Street while career and volunteer firefighters brought the blaze under control.

While police have ruled the fire non-suspicious, the property was gutted by the flames and smoke, with the damage bill estimated to be $400,000.

The Miner understands the fire may have started in a fireplace at back of the unit.

Mr Spink's adjoining propert suffered only minor damage.

"Everyone's out, our house is safe, and she's safe, that's all that matters," he said.

"I'd do it for anybody, and I'm sure anybody would do it for me as well."

The woman and her children were treated by paramedics, but did not require admission to hospital.