Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell instructed media on Thursday night it may take “several hours” to place out the fireplace utterly.
“It will be a substantial and very prolonged duration of firefighting, to extinguish the fire completely,” he mentioned.
Hundreds of individuals had been evacuated from the world as the fireplace burned by means of a number of ranges on Randle Street close to Central Station simply after 4pm on Thursday.
More than 100 firefighters had been known as to the scene from a number of stations throughout Sydney, needing hours to comprise the blaze with a mixture of aerial and floor assaults.
Fewtrell mentioned there have been “collapse zones” in place to guard firefighters as they stored working.
“We have some engineers attending the scene and they’ll help guide our decisions around safety considerations particularly around the risk of collapse,” he mentioned.
Once the fireplace is lastly extinguished, investigators from each FRNSW and NSW Police will enter the scene to find out the reason for the blaze.
Both organisations mentioned it was too quickly to take a position.
“Our fire investigators along with police forensics will start to make those assessments but that will be sometime downstream,” Fewtrell mentioned.
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John Duncan from NSW Police mentioned the matter was nonetheless underneath investigation.
“We will work with their investigators to work out what actually occurred. It’s way too early [to say what sparked the blaze],” he mentioned.
Fewtrell requested anybody with data or video to come back ahead.
Source: www.9news.com.au
