A 44-year-old father who saved his family after their home was firebombed believes it was a ‘targeted attack’.
Andrew Gould and his family were asleep in their Mackenzie, south Brisbane, home on November 1 when three thugs smashed a downstairs window around 10.30pm.
Mr Gould’s 67-year-old mother was asleep upstairs, as was his niece and nephew, aged 14 and 11, and his pregnant sister, Kylie Jean Gould.
Ms Gould, who is 35 weeks pregnant, is currently facing drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Andrew Gould, 44, helped get his family out of their home after it was firebombed by thugs on November 1
Mr Gould and his family were asleep in their Mackenzie, south Brisbane, home when petrol cans came through a window (pictured, the home after the fire)
Mr Gould said the home ‘erupted into a fireball’ before the flames caught his head and hands, leaving him with burns
‘Someone was trying to kill us, someone was trying to kill my family,’ Mr Gould told 9 News.
‘Honestly has anyone done anything that bad that you’ve got to kill their whole family?’
The thugs first threw a pot plant through the window, before sending in two cans of petrol and a blow torch, setting the home alight.
Kylie Jean Gould, who is 35 weeks pregnant, is currently facing drug trafficking and weapons charges
Ms Gould was in the home with her family when it was set alight by thugs in what her family believe was a targeted attack
The 44-year-old smashed a back window and helped his family escape the blaze, before rushing back in with a kitchen pot full of water to try and stem the fire.
A neighbour told 9 News: ‘There were people out here trying to stretch their hoses across the road, there were people trying to fill up buckets.’
Mr Gould said the home ‘erupted into a fireball’ before the flames caught his head and hands, leaving him with burns.
He was initially taken to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
The thugs first threw a pot plant through the window, before sending in two cans of petrol and a blow torch, setting the home alight
Acting Inspector Tim Clark said fire services attended and extinguished the fire, which was contained to the front room of the house.
‘Our crews have gone into action and rescued one occupant with burns from within the premise,’ Acting Inspector Tim Clark said.
‘All other occupants were lucky that working smoke alarms were working and notified the occupants and woke them up and they were able to exit the house.’
Police have yet to apprehend the thugs who firebombed the home.