Parents of six Rickardo Jetta and Kellie Farmer are left to pick up the pieces and salvage what they can with Christmas looming.

The fire started in their 14-year-old daughter Shardah’s bedroom about 11pm last Wednesday night.

Mr Jetta was on the computer while Ms Farmer was wrapping up Christmas presents.

The first indication something was wrong was when the computer cut out, followed by a “plasticky burning smell”.

When Mr Jetta opened Shardah’s bedroom door he was shocked to see a fire blazing next to the bed where his daughter was still sleeping.

“I just stared in shock for a second at what was happening,” Mr Jetta said.

“Then it just kind of clicked and I shouted “fire” and yelled at her to get up and get out.”

Mr Jetta said his next reaction was to get his other children out of the house.

The sleeping children were slow to wake and by the time the last of them raced out of the house smoke had engulfed the house.

“I couldn’t breathe anymore the smoke was so thick.

“I knew I had to get out or I wasn’t going to make it.”

In the chaos outside Mr Jetta didn’t notice his youngest son Rickardo junior, who he carried outside only minutes earlier, went missing.

“He had woken up on the grass and without thinking he’d walked back into the house and fallen asleep on the lounge again,” Mr Jetta said.

Their family dog, a small Chihuahua, followed the boy back inside.

Young Rickardo woke when the dog when the dog started licking his face.

“He couldn’t see because of the smoke and he just said “it’s all dark”,” Mr Jetta said.

“I heard him from across the street and everything stopped…my heart just stopped…and I yelled out there’s kids in the house.”

The smoke was too thick for Mr Jetta to enter the house again so he called out his son’s name and waved his arms through the door way until he made contact with his head and pulled him out of the house.