A family’s walk with their dog took a devastating turn on Sunday when they returned to find their home in a suburb south of Perth had been engulfed by an out-of-control fire.

Fire and SES crews attended to the blaze on Miguel Road in Yangebup around 8am, after a neighbour saw smoke billowing from the roof and called triple zero.

By the time the couple and their little girl returned from their walk, the blaze had fully taken over their home.

The male resident says he opened the front door to his home to assess the situation but instantly shut it again when he realised the fire had taken over his home.

“I took one look and thought, no I won’t go inside,” he told PerthNow.

The cause has been chalked up to an accident, the family said.

The couple, who have been offered accommodation from multiple neighbours, said they were “grateful to have not been home at the time”.

The home was fully insured, which they said had “softened the blow” of the ordeal.

The neighbour who first alerted emergency services, said he’d heard loud bangs which “sounded like windows smashing”.

A man from the same household said he ran across to the home and frantically banged on the windows to alert anyone who might have been home at the time.

The pair said firefighters appeared to contain the blaze swiftly before working on the cleanup, which was still ongoing late into the morning.