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Speaker 1: Sydney's one oh one point seven Wsfair with your seven

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Speaker 1: o'clock update. Good morning. I'm Natasha Lee. A witness that

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Speaker 1: the scene of that massive fire in Surrey Hills, says

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Speaker 1: he could smell people's hair burning as he ran from

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Speaker 1: the inferno. Parts of the heritage listed building came crashing

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Speaker 1: down during the blaze, which forced the evacuations of neighboring buildings.

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Speaker 1: Troy Wilson was in the building next door. His told

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Speaker 1: nine embers were beginning to fall as people were running scared,

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Speaker 1: the smell of.

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Speaker 2: People's burnt hair, as ambers landed in their hair, people

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Speaker 2: walking around with little dots in their jackets and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. So that's sort of when it starts to

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Speaker 2: sink in that it was as full on as it was.

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Speaker 1: Superintendent Adam Drew Brees says the fire is still smoldering.

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Speaker 1: Investigations into the fire have commenced that.

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Speaker 2: Are ongoing, but the mating now is to move forward

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Speaker 2: so it can get the area of the city opened

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Speaker 2: up again, and that includes getting all the people back intoday.

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Speaker 1: Evidentially a pub with a right next door