A LUXURY boat has been firebombed on the Gold Coast less than a metre from a house where a young mother and her two children were asleep.
Shannon Lewis, 26, awoke to flames jumping towards her children's first-floor bedroom at their Upper Coomera home.
Neighbours helped whisk the children - Aiden, 4, and six-month-old Brooklyn - to safety as Mrs Lewis grabbed a fire extinguisher to fight the blaze engulfing the 8m boat parked in the front yard.
Adding to her terror was the fact her husband Peter was away.
"I was over at a mate's place trying to help him fix a projector and I got a call from my wife just before midnight telling me the boat was on fire," Mr Lewis said.
"The boat's only about half a metre from the house and the flames were shooting up as high as the kids' bedroom. One of the neighbours got them out and Shannon and another neighbour tried to put the flames out, but it was too far gone.
"We were extremely lucky - the whole house could have gone up."
Mr Lewis, who only bought the boat about 10 months ago, has offered a $10,000 reward for information on the firebomb attack that destroyed the boat.
He believes he knows who was responsible and has given a statement to police.
- Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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