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Annabel Phillipson with her dog Andie. Her home was dangerously close to the flames during Monday’s fire in Redcliffs. Builders constructing a double-garage and bedroom on her land saw the flames and quickly raised the alarm. “One of them knocked on the door and said there’s a fire down the hill and it looks like it’s coming this way,” Phillipson said. She began gathering the family’s valuables, while her 23-year-old daughter, Juliette, joined the builders in trying to douse the flames. The trees below the new building caught alight, meaning the fire was “actually burning underneath the house”.