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A man is fighting for life after a suspicious house fire in Sydney’s west. The home on Orth St at Kingswood was well alight about 6.55am on Tuesday, as emergency services raced to the scene. Fire and Rescue NSW crews extinguished the blaze. A man, aged 71, was treated by paramedics at the scene and was then taken to Nepean Hospital in a critical condition. A crime scene was established. Police are treating the fire as “suspicious”. Investigations are ongoing.
“Firefighters entered the premises wearing breathing apparatus and rescued an elderly male, and brought him out to the ambulance for resuscitation,” he told reporters. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, Perkins added. “There was a scooter that was being charged in the front yard, and we are investigating if this was a lithium-ion battery fire,” he said. The damage to the home was “quite significant”, Perkins said.
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