Single mum devastated as car torched just weeks after she paid it off

Police are hunting an arsonist successful Perth's bluish suburbs, accused of torching a azygous mother's car while she slept.

Locals woke to nan sound of explosions and screams for thief arsenic Hollie Mazzucchelli's car went up successful flames connected a Ballajura street.

The arson attack was caught connected CCTV conscionable earlier 3am, erstwhile a occurrence bug was seen mounting nan conveyance alight earlier leaving connected a bicycle, only to return moments later and adhd much substance to nan flames.

"About 2:40am this morning, I heard a large explosion, and past soon after, my car siren started going off," Mazzucchelli told reporters.

"Then I've tally retired nan beforehand and I've seen conscionable flames bellowing from nan backmost of nan car."

The mum-of-two grabbed her plot hose and screamed for thief arsenic neighbours called Triple Zero.

Mazzucchelli wiped distant tears arsenic she labelled nan car her "lifeline" to supply for her family, pinch nan uninsured conveyance only conscionable paid off.

"I've been raising 2 girls connected my ain for nan past 5 years, since my separation," she said.

"I activity full-time and this car is my lifeline.

"This is thing that I wanted to put successful truthful I could yet get a location indebtedness if I was to waste it. I've conscionable vanished paying disconnected nan car indebtedness successful nan past month."

The conveyance is now a constitute off, which her sister Shari Rajcinoski describes arsenic "devastating".

"She's a hard-working azygous mother," Rajcinoski said.

"She doesn't person security connected nan car, and now she's sewage to carnivore nan brunt of personification else's actions."

The 35-year-old is conscionable thankful her children weren't home.

"Really, really scary that this has happened and that personification tin travel successful and travel onto my spot and perchance put myself and my kids successful that type of harm is really concerning," Mazzucchelli said.

Police are investigating nan incident.

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