Ten people, including young children, escaped a fierce house fire in a budget share home with no working smoke alarms.

The blaze broke out some time after midnight on Tuesday in the kitchen of a crowded Rosemary St home in Inala, Brisbane, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) said.

Nine crews arrived about 12.45am to find the house already 80 per cent engulfed in flames, QFES said.

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Firefighters faced dangerous conditions and had to fight the fire externally due to structural risks.

“It was dangerous for us to put crews inside so we had to undertake all our firefighting externally initially from above,” QFES station officer Paul Hart said.

“The roof was collapsing at the time.”

Eleven people, including a family with young children, shared the cramped accommodation although only 10 people were home when the fire broke out.

Evacuating the crowded home was difficult due to the number of people inside, Hart said.

“The house didn’t have any working smoke alarms and the residents don’t appear to be living in a family arrangement, so it made it complicated for us to identify who was here and who wasn’t,” he said.

Queensland Ambulance assessed all 10 residents as stable, with no injuries.

QFES confirmed everyone at the property was accounted for.

Mona Liza Aokuso lived in the home with her three young children.

She said she had been living there for several months, while her husband had been at the property for more than a year.

A housemate alerted her to the fire, she said.

“All he said was ‘Get out, there is a fire’,” she recalled.

“I ran and got the kids.”

Aokuso said if her housemate had not warned her, she was unsure if she would still be alive.

Hart praised the residents for their quick actions.

“The residents who first saw the fire in the kitchen did an excellent job of alerting everybody else by knocking on doors and yelling out,” he said.

“But again, incredibly lucky given the time of night and the lack of alarms with 11 people that they’ve all managed to evacuate.”

Aokuso’s son is turning 10 tomorrow but the family now faces uncertainty, with no home and no presents for him.

Queensland law mandates working smoke alarms in every home, with new legislation soon requiring interconnected alarms in bedrooms and hallways.

These regulations were introduced following the deadly 2000 Childers backpacker fire, which claimed 15 lives 25 years ago on Monday, prompting stricter fire safety laws for shared housing.