Three children are lucky to be alive after an explosion in Auckland which blew out a garage door and destroyed a brand new BMW.
A Fire Service spokesman told the Herald they were called out to a fire on Taumata Rd at 2.30pm, when the garage was "fully ablaze".
Four fire crews attended, and one firefighter burned his hands and had to be treated.
A teenager and two young girls under five were above the garage in the top storey of their house in Taumata Rd, Sandringham, Fairfax reported, and a brand new BMW four-wheel-drive was destroyed.
A Fire Service inspector told Fairfax the girls probably wouldn't have survived if they weren't able to flee the house.