Man dies in Berkeley unit fire

Illawarra Mercury

A man has died as a fire tore through his Berkeley unit while his heroic neighbours battled to douse the flames. Footage by Robert Peet, Nadine Morton

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00:00Unfortunately we have a deceased male aged about 40. We had crews respond at

00:069.23 this morning from four stations. A lot of a lot of repeat calls, numerous

00:10AAAs were coming in, so hence we had four stations responded. Upon arrival

00:15crews forced entry, unfortunately it was too late to save a male within.

00:19Was he the only one inside? Yeah just the one person inside the unit.

00:23Do we know what may have started the fire here? Nah, we're still under investigation. I don't

00:27believe it's suspicious or malicious in any nature. There's extensive fire damage

00:35throughout the units. The adjoining units, they're fine, it didn't get into the common

00:39roof void which is our main concern that might have spread laterally through the

00:42common roof void. There's been no penetration next door so it's just the

00:45one unit involved. How long was it burning for do we know? It's hard to say but I'd only be

00:52guessing if I put a time frame on that. Do we have the fire dogs come down or

00:57any other resources? Yeah the canine's on its way now from the south southern

01:01highlands and we have another another investigator coming from Sydney to just

01:05try and establish determination, cause determination. Was the fire just contained

01:10to the one unit Andrew? That's correct yeah. Do we know where it started from or

01:15originally? We've got a rough idea but it's pretty extensively burnt from halfway

01:20from the walls up to the roof. It's hard to lock down where it started. Hence

01:25FIU's coming to try and shed some light on that on the cause.

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