{"id":61073,"date":"2026-07-29T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/61073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:14:19","slug":"three-dead-after-house-fire-in-sydneys-south-west-as-police-launch-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/61073\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead after house fire in Sydney&#8217;s south-west as police launch investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">New South Wales Police is working to identify the bodies of three people found in a house fire in Sydney&#8217;s south-west overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to reports of a house fire on Cornelia Street at Wiley Park about 9:45pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) responded with five fire trucks and 20 firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The crews were confronted by a ferocious fire as they arrived,&#8221; a FRNSW statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;They forced their way through the burning exterior of the property, extinguishing scaffolding and garden trellis that had caught alight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the firefighters entered a granny flat at the rear of the badly damaged home, they discovered the bodies of three people.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three firefighters in protective gear wearing oxygen masks gather between a police car and fire truck.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/11ec8ffca4e472e374df36a1a52156b4.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">FRNSW says it sent five trucks and 20 firefighters to the scene. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Extensive damage to the property was reported, with FRNSW extinguishing the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">FRNSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell attended the scene to provide support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our investigators will examine the scene thoroughly, once it&#8217;s been declared safe,&#8221; Commissioner Fewtrell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We offer our condolences to the families of the victims of this terrible tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This is a stark reminder of the dangers of home fires, particularly during the winter period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A crime scene has been established at the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement, NSW Police said it was yet to formally identify the victims, and that a report would be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New South Wales Police is working to identify the bodies of three people found in a house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63924,4860,32096,3054,596,1047,247,69835],"class_list":["post-61073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-bodies","tag-dead","tag-fire-and-rescue","tag-house-fire","tag-nsw","tag-police","tag-sydney","tag-wiley-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}