Two of the six people who were in the Hinchinbrook home at the time died at the scene and a 10-year-old child was rushed to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a serious condition | carriefellner
Fire and Rescue NSW crews remain on the scene where the charred remains of the home are still smouldering.Temperatures plummeted to an icy six degrees in Sydney’s south-west on Sunday morning, but it remains unclear whether the use of heating contributed to the blaze.
Unsworth said it was a timely reminder that winter was the most dangerous time of year for house fires and people needed to engage with home fire safety.Loading Unsworth added that authorities were drawing no conclusions about the cause of the fire at Hinchinbrook and not known whether the property had a working smoke alarm.
Authorities have been warning people to take extra caution in the rush to warm their homes, after a family’s inventive strategy to repurpose an outdoor charcoal cooker as an indoor heater
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