The bodies of five unnamed adults have been removed from a northeast home following an early morning fire on Falchurch Crescent Northeast.

Tim Moerike was watching a movie in his home early Saturday morning when he was startled by a disturbing noise outside.

“I heard a pane of glass break," recalls Moerike. "I thought it was a car window or something like that. I jumped out of bed, ran to our bedroom window, looked outside and I saw flames in house 104 in the living room window.”

Moerike told his wife to call 911 and ran to check on his friends, the McGregors, who live in the home at 108 Falchurch Cres N.E.

"Our neighbour Tim came and he was screaming 'Get out, get out, there's a fire!'," said Elisha McGregor. 'We went running out and saw the neighbour's house and the flames were just huge."

McGregor says she escaped alongside her mom and crossed the street before turning to see the flames had jumped to their home.

Fire crews responded to the neighbourhood and encountered a working fire that had spread from the original home to the McGregor's neighbourng residence.

“Our crews got right into action, protecting the exposure, and, from the exterior, putting water into the source home,” said CFD Chief Steve Dongworth. “Once they knocked down the fire in the source home and got the exposure under control, crews were sent inside the building and immediately started locating casualties.”

EMS officials confirm five adults were pronounced dead at the scene. The identities of the deceased have not been released.

"I can't recall the last time we had this many fatalities in a fire," said Dongworth.

“It’s scary. It’s sad,” said neighbour Christina Tocher “We went to bed thinking kind of thinking maybe it’s just the house that was partially burnt and wake up to find five had died. That’s really sad.”

Moerike, who has lived in the neighbourhood for nearly three decades, says he doesn't know the people that lived in 104 stating "it's been a party house for a while" and the home has been visited by police and fire crews in the past.

An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.