caption : Top:Dayang being carried by her father into a waiting police car to go to the hospital. Bottom (from left): The scene of the fire & a motorcycle and bicycles destroyed in the fire. BINTULU: A six-year-old child was miraculously rescued unhurt from her grandfather's burning house in a fire that also destroyed her father's house at Kpg Baru here yesterday. Firemen found Dayang Syai Zaiful Zaika hiding behind the staircase of her grandfather's house at about 2pm yesterday, nearly one hour after the fire first started at her father's house at 1.15pm. When she emerged from the blaze, carried out of the inferno in the arms of a fireman, cheers broke out among the many anxious onlookers who had gathered at the scene, hoping very much against hope that she would still be found alive. And she was not only alive but was without a scratch. She was however believed to be in a state of shock and did not utter a single sound, even as the fireman who rescued her put her into the arms of her father, who immediately got into a waiting police car to get her to the hospital for a thorough check-up. Her thankful mother Kasuri bte Hj Dahari said: "We thought we have lost her. The fire was raging, and there was no sign of our girl at all for such a long time." Two double-storey houses belonging to the father-and-son pair were destroyed in the fire. The fire started in the house Dayang was staying in with her parents and four siblings. It was Dayang's five-year-old sister who first spotted the fire. Kasuri said her younger daughter was going upstairs to look for Dayang when she saw smoke and flames. The little girl hurried down the stairs to inform her father, whose immediate thought at that time was to bring her to safety. By the time it was realised that Dayang was missing amidst the chaos and panicky situation, the fire had became so fierce that it was impossible to go back upstairs for her. Not known to anyone, the frightened Dayang had somehow got out of her father's house and hid in her grandfather's house close nearby. She crouched behind the staircase on the lower level of the house, the part of the house which was spared from the fire as firemen came in time to battle the flames and to prevent it from spreading to more houses in the village. The Bintulu Bomba Chief Supt Awang Hidzel headed a team of firemen in two fire engines, a four-wheel-drive and a van to the scene where the villagers gave their best to help the firemen put out the flames. OCS (Officer-in-charge of the police station) Chief Inspector Hasmerra Hassan was also at the scene. The upper floors of the two houses were made of wood, and the ground floors were built with cement. At time of fire, Kasuri's three sons were away in school. The cause of the fire and the loss caused has yet to be ascertained. Motorcycles and bicycles were among most of the belongings in the two houses which were destroyed in the fire but Kasuri said all these do not matter that much, knowing that their precious Dayang is safe and sound.