Family with newborn baby 'left with nothing' as their house burns down within minutes

A family with a newborn baby and a young child have been left with 'nothing' after a horrifying devastated their.

Deborah Ameh was jolted awake by her fire alarm when the blaze erupted in her house on Forge Street in the Germiston area of around 6.30am on Wednesday, October 2. As the mum-of-two hurried downstairs to check on her children, one aged five and the other just five months, she was horrified to find her living room completely engulfed in flames. The mum says she, her husband, Possible Aguebor, and their two children have now been left "with nothing" - but is "thanking god" that all the family survived.

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The 34-year-old told the : "All of our belongings, from my furniture, clothes, books, shoes and even sentimental pictures, have been destroyed. Everything is either burnt or covered in smoke. We've gone back and there is nothing left, everything is destroyed. Apart from my passport , everything else has been burnt. It has been devastating but I am so grateful that my children and grandma are safe and well, it could have been a very different story. I'm thanking god that we are all well and that nobody died."

Speaking of the moment she discovered the blaze, Deborah told the Record: "I suddenly woke up at around 6.30am to the fire alarm going off. I quickly got out of bed and checked the upstairs room before I went downstairs. As I got down, my whole living room was on fire. By the time I got there, the fire had already gripped the house and most of my furniture was burning. It was scary because my grandma and my two young children were in the house at the time. I quickly got them together and we got out."

After quickly getting out of the property, the family watched on as the inferno engulfed their home before Deborah was rushed to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment to smoke inhalation. Deborah continued: "After we got out, the fire spread to the rest of the house within minutes. The widows blew out and the doors were falling, we could see the flames gripping the whole building, it all happened very quickly." I was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, where I gave a few blood tests before being released again. It was scary and I was shaken, but I am okay now."

Photographs show how the home has been left completely destroyed by the blaze. The living room has been left gutted after walls and ceilings collapsed during the inferno. Wallpaper has been pictured peeling away from the walls while the upstairs bedrooms have been left charred. Thick, black sheets of smoke can also be seen plastered across the beds, walls and floors.

Deborah and her family are temporarily living in an Airbnb until they can find a new home. A has since been set up by Deborah's neighbours to help the family get back on their feet.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 7.37am on Wednesday, 2 October, to reports of a fire within a domestic property on Forge Street in Germiston, Glasgow. Operations Control mobilised four fire appliances to the scene. Two casualties were tended to by the Scottish Ambulance Service. Firefighters have now left the scene after ensuring the area was safe."