Three adults and five children are lucky to be alive after a fire ripped through their Otahuhu home this morning.
Emergency services were called to the 20m by 25m residential house on Awa Rd in the Auckland suburb just before 5am.
A spokesman said the fire was well underway when staff arrived at the scene, but is now contained.
![The family were lucky to escape the burning house.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/I26M4VJFPEKUEMR43DSJADBFLM.jpg?auth=080da74bde74ba7fe1903be0c54433d9b8f11f0fc921043dbbdbefdac1a36c1c&width=16&height=18&quality=70&smart=true)
There are no reports of injuries and an investigator is at the scene to determine the cause of the fire.