Fifteen minutes later, her entire Kuttabul home was razed - clothing, precious photographs, heirlooms all gone.
Mrs Brown, who is partially deaf, said her dog saved her life by coming into the bedroom to wake her, as she tearfully reflected on that horrific night two years ago that claimed the family home of 15 years.
"I raced out to the back of the house as my eldest son had just moved up from Melbourne," she said.
Kuttabul resident and North Eton CWA member Sandralee Brown, said her Kuttabul home was razed in a house fire two years ago. Picture: Heidi Petith