‘All I hear is this boom’: Woman recounts moment cars torched outside Sydney home

A woman has recounted the dramatic moment her car went up in flames after two hooded arsonists torched a ute and SUV in Sydney’s west early on Tuesday morning.

Emergency crews were called to the blazes on Wallace Street in Granville about 5.30am. Footage obtained by Nine showed the two vehicles engulfed by flames that stretched several metres into the air.

Shocked residents said they woke to what sounded like fireworks coming from the street, with one woman saying: “I was sleeping, and all I hear is this ‘boom’.”

“I looked outside and our car was in flames – it was smoke to the freaking sky,” the unnamed resident told Nine News.

Another neighbour told Nine: “It was really scary. I called Triple Zero straight away.”

The fires burnt dangerously close to a suburban home, but six fire trucks and 22 firefighters arrived quickly on the scene and managed to extinguish the blaze by 6.30am.

The front of the home sustained minor damage, but no one was injured.

CCTV footage taken from a neighbouring property and obtained by Nine shows two hooded individuals walking down Wallace Street at approximately 5.18am, carrying what appear to be jerrycans.

Other eyewitnesses told Nine that there was suspicious activity on the street earlier in the morning, reporting loud bangs and a vehicle driving away.

The destroyed vehicles have been declared a crime scene, and NSW Police are now investigating the cause of the blazes, confirming they are treating the incident as suspicious.

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