A person has died after a fire tore through a home on a quiet residential street in Sydney’s inner west.
Fire crews were called to Irrara Street in Croydon just after 4am and found a house ablaze, with flames shooting through the roof.
Firefighters escalated the incident to a full emergency response, and six trucks from across the inner west and south-west attended the scene.
NSW Fire & Rescue and NSW Police on Irrara Street in Croydon that has been established as a crime scene due to a fatal house fire. Credit: Kate Geraghty
NSW Fire and Rescue Superintendent Adam Dewberry said the blaze spread quickly and crews were only able to enter the single-storey house from the rear. After firefighters conducted an initial search, the roof started to collapse, fanning the fire further and forcing crews to withdraw.
When the search resumed, the body of one person was found inside the house.
NSW Fire and Rescue crews initially searched through the rubble for an unaccounted person believed to be the second resident of the house. Dewberry later confirmed that NSW Fire and Rescue were satisfied that no one else was inside the house.
“Once the area has been stabilised and it is safer, a more thorough search will be conducted. However, we’re confident that there is only one casualty out of this fire,” Dewberry said.
Aerials show the collapsed roof of a Croydon house after fire tore through the property. Credit: Nine News
Earlier, Dewberry said the search of the house had been made difficult by the collapsed roof, which made it unsafe for firefighters. The initial blaze took about 40 minutes to contain, while fire crews spent another hour and a half suppressing hotspots.
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