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A family-of-four has been forced to live in a caravan after they lost all of their possessions when their home went up in flames.
Christopher Feeney, 42, was at home in Scarborough, in Perth's north-west, with his fiancé Johana, one of their twin six-year-old boys and two dogs on May 22 when a neighbour noticed their garage had caught fire.
The couple quickly snapped into action and evacuated safely before the fire engulfed the rest of the home.
Clothes, sentimental items, toys and also Christopher's work van worth about $100,000 were lost, forcing him to halt work as a flooring contractor for the time being.
The family were sitting in their living room when they were alerted to the fire after a neighbour noticed a plume of black smoke rising from the back of their house.
'They (the neighbour) said they saw smoke coming from the garage, then my partner tried to have a look but the fire was so strong,' Johana told Daily Mail Australia.
'He told us to leave the home now, it's going to explode.'
Within three minutes Johana had rushed out of the house with one of her sons (the other being at school), with Christopher following shortly after.
'I couldn't think properly, I was just in shock,' Johana said.
'I didn't have shoes on, I ran away (from the fire) with my son barefoot.'
Christopher Feeney (right), fiance Johana (middle) and their twin sons have been forced into living in a friend's caravan after losing their home and possessions to a house fire on May 22
Johana said the family could only watch on as firefighters attempted to put out the blaze.
'I was hoping it would be small, but when I saw the frames starting to burn and come off I knew it would be impossible to stop,' she said.
'My boy cried, he was so upset. He was saying 'My house is burning mummy, my house is burning'.'
The mother said their biggest worry was Christopher's work van, containing tools he had spent 12 years collecting in order to build his business.
'He's been building his business and that's all that was in the garage, the van,' Johana said.
None of the estimated $100,000 worth of tools were salvageable from the blaze.
The couple's two sons have found the disaster particularly hard, telling other kids at school they 'don't have toys and miss their home'.
The family was able to find a small
