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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

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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
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

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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
Firefighters battle the petrol tanker crash at Medlow Bath in 1992.

New ‘forever chemical’ tests zero in on contamination source

Independent tests have linked PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains to the site of a 1992 petrol tanker crash.

  • Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner
A detective leave Lewis Contintental Kitchen with a jerry can on Sunday afternoon.

‘Nothing to suggest’ Bondi kosher business fire was targeted: police

Emergency services were called to Lewis’ Continental Kitchen on Curlewis Street just after 4am to reports of a fire. 

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Water scientist Ian Wright takes a sample of PFAS-contaminated water in a sandstone canyon at Greaves Creek, below Medlow Dam.

‘White hot’: Cancer-linked chemicals flowing into dam at 50 times safe level

Independent tests near Medlow Dam in the Blue Mountains show contamination at far higher levels than the government has admitted.

  • Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner

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