Two people have handed themselves in over a fire that gutted two buildings in Surry Hills. 7NEWS
“There are two walls that are in a precarious position,” Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Adam Dewberry told Today on Friday.“That is why we have such a tight exclusion zone, not allowing anyone in, including firefighters, until we get the engineers in.”
Once the area is safe, residents and businesses are expected to be allowed to return to their premises and the major thoroughfare Elizabeth St will be reopened.Firefighters were able to enter her apartment and collect her wedding dress and other essentials. Dewberry praised his crews for preventing significant damage to nearby buildings after the fire spread into an apartment block.The fire was one of the largest fires in the city for years, Fire and Rescue NSW Acting Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell said.The fire gutted a former hat factory in central Sydney.The factory’s roof collapsed, then the floors, before parts of the building’s walls fell down shortly before 5pm, sending red-hot bricks tumbling to the streets below.
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