Quick work by fire­fight­ers saved a $2 mil­lion dol­lar house from burn­ing to the ground in Mara­bel­la on Fri­day.

The blaze was first spot­ted by Willis Pe­ter who saw smoke bil­low­ing from the home of De­vish Shah at 40 Bay Road.

Shah lives with his wife Kel­ly and their nine-year-old son Rishard who was at school.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Shah was just about to dri­ve out of his premis­es when Pe­ters flagged him down and told him smoke was com­ing from the roof.

“We called the fire ser­vices and I went across and as­sist­ed him in tak­ing off the elec­tri­cal break­ers, “ Pe­ters said.

He added that by the time the fire of­fi­cers ar­rived a few min­utes lat­er, part of the up­per floor was en­gulfed.

Fire Ser­vice Of­fi­cer Kei­th Sib­er­an said four ap­pli­ances ar­rived at the lo­ca­tion but fire of­fi­cers had dif­fi­cul­ties in get­ting the bur­glar-proof open.

“We used the jaws of life to cut open the bur­glar-proof which was heav­i­ly pad­locked, “ Sib­er­an added.

He said 35 per cent of the up­per floor was razed and the en­tire low­er floor was wa­ter­logged.

Dam­ages were es­ti­mat­ed to be over $500,000.

Shah de­clined to speak about the fire and the dam­age say­ing the me­dia could not help him and he was al­ready fac­ing prob­lems be­cause of the blaze.

Of­fi­cers of the Mara­bel­la Po­lice Sta­tion vis­it­ed the scene.

Fire Pre­ven­tion Of­fi­cers were ex­pect­ed to re­vis­it the scene. Sources told Guardian Me­dia it was too ear­ly to de­ter­mine the cause of the blaze but said pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions sug­gest the fire start­ed near the air con­di­tion­ing unit and spread to the PVC ceil­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.