Home burns up

Waigani family home up in flames

Julie Alo, from Enga Province, would have lost a family member as well, if it weren’t for quick-thinking neighbours.

Alo and her two children were standing outside the house, feeding a duck, when her three-year-old alerted her to the flames. This was between 7.35 and 7.40am.

She ran back to the burning home to check up on her family members, noted that they had all escaped, then backed her car out into the street.