![]() If it hadn’t been for the good action of our firefighters there, we could’ve easily had numbers of firefighters killed or seriously injured,” he said. “There was a tremendous risk to firefighter life when that wall collapsed yesterday. He praised his crews for their quick actions that prevented significant damage to nearby buildings and saved lives. The building’s structure made for a “perfect set of conditions” for the “once in a decade” blaze to spread so quickly, Fewtrell said. Firefighters are worried more walls could collapse at a fire-ravaged former hat factory in Sydney. “Young people visiting is not something we’re aware of prior to yesterday,” he said. ![]() “We’ll remain concerned until we locate those two people.”ĭunstan said the building had otherwise been vacant for about 12 months, with some deconstruction work taking place. “There are two other people that we’d to track down and just confirm they are safe and well, and our detectives are working furiously to try and locate those people,” Dunstan said, adding police were working with government agencies to find them. Police said up to 15 people were sleeping rough inside the building the night before the inferno, with only 13 accounted for so far. “They were running out from the stairway, really (scared).” “They were screaming upwards to the kid (still inside), like, ‘Why are you still up there’,” locksmith Phu Tang, who works nearby, told reporters earlier on Friday. It comes after a witness revealed he saw several high school-aged children running from the building as it went up in flames. ![]() The arson squad is investigating and no charges have been laid. ![]()
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