PHOTO: The blaze that consumed the Hume family home in the early hours of Monday morning.
FIREFIGHTERS were unable to save a family home on Nebea Street, Coonamble after it caught fire on Sunday night.
The owners, Cheryl (aged 66) and Jack (Wally) Hume (aged 77), were at home in bed when the fire took hold.
Mr Hume said he heard cracking noises and, thinking that someone was breaking in, went to investigate.
Mrs Hume also got up and realised there was a fire.
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