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"It had been obliterated,"
Summer said.
Blackened parts of a small toy car.

Summer Van Andel and Gabrielle Taylor sit at a table inside their home.

"It made me so sick in my stomach because I just realised that we had an extremely close call,"
she said.

Black marks on a wall where fire burned.

Blackened carpet and wooden furniture from a fire.

Blackened toy car parts.

"We do understand that it can be difficult for consumers to assert these rights,"
she said.
A sticky note on a power outlet reads "do not use, fire affected".

Professor Luke Nottage stands next to a bicycle.

"But we actually want it to be a breach of the law not to honour those consumer guarantee rights."

"I'm shocked that it's been as hard,"
she said.

Duct tape is stuck over the carpet and wall that sustained fire damage.

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