Man and four children taken to hospital after house fire at Point Cook, Melbourne

Fire crews have rescued a 15-year-old boy from a burning home in Melbourne’s southwest and five people have been rushed to hospital.

Fire crews have saved a teenager from a blaze after the boy was trapped in his burning home in Point Cook.

The teen, 15, became trapped after a fire, believed to have been caused by an electrical device in the house’s home office, broke out shortly before 7am on Tuesday.

The boy’s father and three siblings were able to escape from the home after being woken by the property’s smoke alarm.

Firefighters attended the scene and were able to free the teenager from the house.

He was then rushed to the Royal Children’s Hospital suffering from burns and smoke inhalation.

The rest of the family was taken to Werribee Mercy Hospital.

A 15-year-old boy was rescued by firefighters. Picture: Angus McIntyre

The smell of smoke still hung thickly in the air around the house on Willowherb Way more than two hours after the blaze had been extinguished.

Rooms at the front of the house had been completely gutted by flames.

Faraz Naqvi, who was visiting his cousin, Syed Haider, who lives next door to the burnt building, said he saw the teenager being taken out of the house with “black marks” covering his body.

“I could see black marks on his body … he might have gotten burns,” Mr Naqvi said.

“He was not in a good state.”

Five people, a man and four children, were injured in the fire. Picture: Angus McIntyre

Mr Haider said there had been large amounts of paper clearly visible through the house’s front windows, which he said could have contributed to the fire.

“As we would walk past, you would see that in their rooms, the front rooms, we could see that there’s a lot of a lot of paper, a lot of, you know, rubbish,” Mr Haider said.

“I’m assuming the fire you know, escalated that quickly because of it.”

Although the family was lucky to survive, their pet cat perished.

Fire Investigation Commander Steve Attard said the fire was not suspicious.

“Definitely non-suspicious,” Mr Attard said after inspecting the house for more than two hours.

“We’ve got a couple of possibles of what caused it but we need to sit down with the occupants and ask them a few questions.”

A portable heater was considered as one possible cause but Mr Attard said the team could not yet be sure.

A crew meticulously investigated the gutted remnants of the home’s front room, where the blaze began, on Tuesday lunchtime.

The contents of the room, which was previously a home office, were almost completely destroyed by the fire.