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I was awoken by an explosion at 2am this morning.
I jumped up & stuck my head out of the window to see what had caused it.
A person on the street yelled to me that a car was on fire beneath my unit and I better get out of the building.
I could see the bright orange glow of the flames illuminating everything around it.
Everybody in the building was alerted and got outside.
A 4wd was ablaze and occasionally exploding under our block of flats.
The firebrigade arrived and eventually got the fire out.
The police took statements from everybody and it turned out that it was a stollen car that the theives had parked there and set on fire.
The barstards obviously didn't care if it burnt down the building and killed anybody
The above image is the smouldering ruins after the removal of the 4wd.

Thankfully everybody is OK and my car was far enough away not to be effected but the car next to the 4wd was a rightoff as you can see.

I felt like I had been suddenly transported to Lebanon or Iraq.
We were allowed back in around 3:30 am, but I couldn't get back to sleep after that kind of drama.
It could have been worse, so I thank my lucky stars it wasn't.