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Two bodies found after fire tears through home in Blue Mountains foothills
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Two bodies found after fire tears through home in Blue Mountains foothills

the Guardian·Australian Associated Press·about 1 month ago
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Two bodies have been found following an early morning house fire that caused four others to be taken to hospital. New South Wales police said remains were found when the house was able to be searched on Monday morning, after firefighters extinguished the blaze. Emergency services were called about 2.10am on Monday after a house caught alight in the small town of Bowen Mountain, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in NSW. Five people managed to escape the blaze but two had been unaccounted for, police said. About 60 firefighters from Fire and Rescue and the Rural Fire Service were needed to bring the blaze under control about 3.30am, but many were forced to withdraw before the roof caved in, Nine reported. “There are parts of the home that are still hot and smouldering and many parts of the home have collapsed,” the RFS commissioner, Trent Curtin, told Nine’s Today before the bodies were found.…

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