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Childcare centre arson at “Play to Learn” centre in Castle Hill.

Police investigate underworld links to childcare arson attacks

A police source said one line of investigation was that the centres at Turramurra and Castle Hills were targeted by organised crime.

  • Perry Duffin, Kate McClymont, Josefine Ganko and Penry Buckley

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A childcare centre in Turramurra was targeted in an arson attack overnight.

Arson attack on childcare centre on Sydney’s north shore

A suspicious blaze has left the centre’s staff flummoxed, as police search to understand why it would be targeted.

  • Josefine Ganko
Marrickville arson fireworks gif

Manhunt for alleged gangland ‘freelancer’ after inner west restaurant firebombed

An arsonist attacked a restaurant on consecutive nights, using fireworks to ignite the blaze on his second visit.

  • Josefine Ganko
A firefighter surveys the blaze at the Petersham boarding house on Saturday morning. E-bike batteries in the area fuelled the fire’s intensity.

‘Jet-like flame’: E-bike batteries fuel Sydney boarding house fire

Investigators are looking into whether lithium e-bike batteries were the cause of a fire that led to 20 people evacuating a boarding house in Sydney’s inner west.

  • Penry Buckley
Salim Mehajer’s former Lidcombe home was damaged in a suspicious fire.

Suspicious blaze at Salim Mehajer’s infamous wedding mansion

It once hosted the lavish nuptials of the former Auburn deputy mayor turned inmate. Now the spectacular Lidcombe home is the scene of a suspicious fire.

  • Jessica McSweeney
A fatal house fire broke out on Grant Street.

Man dies in house fire in Sydney’s west

Firefighters arrived at the house in Blacktown to find it well alight and a man inside suffering burns.

  • Patrick Begley
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Bureau of Meteorology forecast map shows predicted heat in NSW on Friday.

Sydneysiders brace for hottest day of summer

A total fire ban is in place, with the city’s final scorcher for the year forecast for Friday. But a potential thunderstorm could dampen New Year’s Eve celebrations.

  • Cindy Yin
Children playing in toxic firefighting foam in the backstreets of Kellyville, circa 2001.

Fears for schools, daycares: The 500 sites yet to be tested for forever chemicals

It could take 50 years to investigate all the potentially contaminated sites across Sydney and the rest of NSW, an inquiry has heard.

  • Carrie Fellner
Hundreds of tonnes of wheat spilled into the Shoalhaven River on October 17, when two silos collapsed at the Manildra starch factory in Bomaderry, on the NSW South Coast. Vision: Fire and Rescue NSW
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Silos collapse at Bomaderry

Hundreds of tonnes of wheat spilled into the Shoalhaven River on October 17, when two silos collapsed at the Manildra starch factory in Bomaderry, on the NSW South Coast. Vision: Fire and Rescue NSW

The man was found floating off the NSW coast.

Sailor who fell from cargo ship found safe after almost 24 hours at sea

The man was spotted south of Newcastle at 6.30pm on Friday night, a day after he fell overboard from a cargo ship.

  • Nigel Gladstone

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