Police investigating ‘suspicious’ factory blaze in Wetherill Park
Police have confirmed that a massive inferno that gutted a western Sydney factory is now being treated as suspicious.
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An inferno that ripped through a pallet factory and damaged neighbouring properties in Sydney’s west is now being treated as suspicious, NSW Police have confirmed.
At about 9.15pm on Saturday August 31, emergency crews were alerted to a blaze at a pallet factory on Redfern St, Wetherill Park reporting approximately 400 wooden pallets well alight.
More than 40 fire trucks, three aerial trucks and 150 firefighters from across Sydney battled the fire overnight and well into Sunday morning.
“When the first crews arrived they found a very well developed fire down the side of a factory unit,” a Fire and Rescue Service spokesman at the scene said.
“(Firefighters) did a good job stopping the fire from spreading beyond its footprint. Unfortunately there are a few businesses that have been severely impacted.”
The fire has since been extinguished. No one was injured.
Police have launched an investigation into the blaze and are treating it as suspicious.
According to 9News, CCTV seized by police show three men with jerry cans at the property.
Officers from the Fairfield City Police Area Command attended the fire with local traffic diversions in place while emergency services remain at the scene.
More to come.
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