A father and his three young children have been treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at their Anna Bay home last night.
The 32-year-old man was taking a shower in their Nelson Bay Road home at about 9pm when a smoke alarm went off.
He rushed out of the shower to find thick smoke in the bedroom of his 1-year-old daughter and managed to rescue her.
The man called out to his father-in-law in an adjacent house to come and help and they removed his other two children aged 3 and 5.
The two men managed to put out the fire with an extinguisher and a garden hose before fire crews arrived.
It's believed an electrical fault in a lamp sitting on a change table sparked the blaze, which caused only minor damage to the home.
