Sydney mother saves entire family from burning home

A mother from western Sydney has single-handily saved her family from a house fire.

The mother-of-four woke up and evacuated the six people inside the Casula home after an electrical fault set her children's bedroom alight just before 4am.

Three children were asleep in the room at the time.

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Authorities believe a faulty heater was the cause of the fire.

The home's interior was completely destroyed, but Sandy Al-Qhameesi is just grateful that no one was injured.

"If we cry [or] if we smile ... [the home] is gone, it has happened, we have to be positive we have to keep going," she said.

Al-Qhameesi and her husband lived in the home for 10 years with their four kids and one grandparent.