A family has been displaced after a fire broke out in their Miami Gardens home.

The fire broke out at a home in the area of Northwest 12th Avenue near 170th Terrace, shortly after 11 p.m., Wednesday.

Firefighters worked overnight to put out the fire.

The homeowner said she was asleep when she heard her son yelling out.

“I was in the room sleeping and my son yelled out something was on fire. I jumped up and looked and seen the fire and I immediately just ran out the door and ran to the neighbors to call 911. Just a kid playing with a lighter, matches — one or the other. Just a kid.”

“Smoke was just coming out the ceiling,” one neighbor said. “They were banging. Banging loud on the door, and I jumped up out the bed ’cause I had gone to bed, and they said ‘Fire! Fire! House on fire!’ I’m saying, ‘What? House on fire?’ They said ‘Call 911,’ so that’s what I did and I called 911.”

The homeowner said she and her family were lucky that her son was awake because there are no working smoke detectors inside the home.

“Everything is gone, it’s ruined,” the homeowner said. “We have nothing left. If we were in a deep sleep it could have been a lot worse, thank God.”

“We just thank God that everybody came out alive,” the neighbor said, “and that’s what’s most important, you know. A house can be rebuilt but lives can’t be replaced, you know.”

Fire officials deemed the house unsafe.

The American Red Cross is assisting the family.