jeanine de la vega is outside the burned out home where the flames were shooting from the roof. jeanine? >> reporter: some firefighters are still here on the scene. you can see right now they're hosing down one of the cars that caught fire. they're worried about anything sparking back up because there's a lot of flammable things inside the house, including the insulation. but that mercedes as well as the landover parked near it caught fire. most of the extensive dooj is in the car. a neighbor -- damage is in the car. a neighbor who escaped, his wife and young daughter ran out the back all after smelling smoke. these were the explosions heard in pleasant hill whether this house caught fire around 1:30 this morning. flames were shooting up in the air and the couple and their young daughter were sleeping inside. they told firefighters that the smoke alarm did not go off. it was a husband who smelled smoke. he looked in the garage and saw the fire. they immediately ran outside. it took firefighters about 30 minutes to knock down the flames. >> for every fire we do an investigation a

firefighters are on the scene of a house fire and ktvu's jeanine de la vega on the scene as well where flames were huge early this morning. jeanine? >> reporter: yes, they were. it's very dramatic video we're about to show you. the fire is out. you can still smell a strong smell of smoke in the air. we're here on dove court off of pleasant hill road and grayson where you can see this garage and attic of this house is completely gutted and essentially inside there's so much water and smoke damage that again it's completely unlivable at this house. firefighters are doing overhaul now but i want to go to some video that shows you just how big these flames are and you can also hear explosions. to get a little more information about this fire which started about 1:25 this morning, i go to the battalion chief of the contra costa county fire protection district. what happened? >> at 1:25 this morning we were dispatched to a structure fire here in the city of pleasant hill. we had crews from the city of concord and pleasant hills responding. we found a fully involved structure. the fire appear