WATCH: Firefighters battling a blaze at a Mangerton home on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. Video by Adam McLean, Anna Warr, supplied
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00:00Just before nine o'clock this morning we had numerous triple zero calls to a
00:04house alight. We sent crews from Wollongong and Warrawong initially. When
00:09we arrived we found a house fully involved with fire and large plume of
00:14black smoke from the building.
00:18Did that smoke indicate that there was anything about the fire or what was on fire itself?
00:25Look, hard to tell when we arrived. All the roof area was where the smoke was
00:29coming from. We've now knocked the fire down and we're doing the final
00:33extinguishment and then we're going to go and have a look and see if we can
00:36determine the cause of the fire.
00:39So we're being told that it started in the back of the house but it looks like it's come all the way through.
00:42Would you say it's been the whole house destroyed?
00:44Yeah, it looks like it has started at the back but yeah the house is pretty well
00:48totally destroyed inside. We had to bring our crews out of the
00:54fire due to the fact that the structural integrity of the roof was starting to be
00:58affected by the fire.