NSW: Residents evacuated in apartment block fire

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2000
NSW: Residents evacuated in apartment block fire

SYDNEY, April 24 AAP - Firefighters hacked down doors with axes as they searched for
residents feared trapped in a burning apartment block in inner Sydney, the Fire Brigade
said today.

Officers had evacuated the first two floors of the Kings Cross block of units and were
conducting a "search and rescue" of the remaining floor, a spokesman said.

The fire broke out in a unit on the second floor about 8.30am (AEST) and quickly spread
to the third.

It was now threatening the roof, the spokesman said.

It was not how many people were in the building.

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