Body found after fire engulfs boarding house in Sydney’s inner west

One person has died and a man is fighting for life after a fire in a boarding house in Sydney’s inner west.A body was found in the building and was yet to be formally identified.

Eight residents fled the intense fire, with three of them taken to hospital, including a man in his 80s who was in a critical condition.Seven ambulance crews were sent to the blaze, with paramedic Braden Robinson saying there were serious concerns for the residents’ welfare. Several were unaccounted for.

“We treated a number of patients for various injuries including burns and smoke inhalation, three of which required hospitalisation,” he said. The St Vincent de Paul Society New South Wales chief executive, Jack de Groot, said it was “a deeply saddening event”, adding a boarding house was “a place of last resort”.“The residents will probably struggle finding a new place to stay and that isn’t right,” De Groot said. “As a community we need to do more to protect our most vulnerable.”

There are 50,000 applicants – representing more than 100,000 people – on the waiting list for social housing in NSW and many more in need of affordable housing.A number of neighbouring properties were also evacuated, with no other reports of injuries.

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