A Fire and Emergency safety officer is reminding parents to keep lighters and matches out of reach of children after fire tore through a Hamilton home.
About 70 per cent of the Newcastle Rd, Dinsdale, home was destroyed in the blaze about 5.50pm yesterday.
The home's occupants, a 26-year-old man, his two boys aged 3 and 5, and their grandmother all escaped relatively unharmed but were taken to Waikato Hospital for minor smoke inhalation.
Fire safety officer Kevin Holmes said the two children were in a bedroom watching movies on a computer.
"The [father] has smelt something a bit odd and gone in there, grabbed the kids and got out.