Mother dies as father and two children hospitalised after house fire tragedy in Orange

A woman is dead and a man and two children from the same family were taken to hospital after fire engulfed a house in Orange, NSW. Photograph: Fire and Rescue NSW

The regional city of Orange will “wrap its arms” around a family after a house fire that took the life of a mother and led to the hospitalisation of a father and two young boys, the local mayor says.

Early Saturday morning, emergency services were called to the home in Orange, in the central tablelands region, and found it engulfed in flames.