BY IAN CROUCH

An electrical fault is being blamed for a fire which destroyed a house at Pokolbin overnight.

Firefighters were called to the home on Gillards Road at about 5.20 yesterday afternoon to find the property engulfed in flames.

The occupants of the home, a 68-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman, escaped unharmed.

It took several hours to fully extinguish the blaze which guttered the home and its contents.

Police say it appears the fire started in a circuit board in the laundry.