The Latest Breaking News from Adam Dewberry

A family has been lucky to escape after part of their Sydney home collapsed in what the NSW Fair Trading minister has called a "shocking incident".

Three people had a lucky escape in the early hours of Easter Friday morning after part of their south-west Sydney home collapsed.

The fire at the furniture warehouse at Chipping Norton is escalated to "fifth alarm" status and is expected to continue for hours.

Highly-flammable hydrogen gas stored next to a chemical plant in Sydney's south is safely removed after fears a cooling tower could collapse, causing a "significant fire and explosion".

Three people are taken to hospital and others are trapped as firefighters respond to reports of an "explosion" in an apartment building at Croydon on Monday morning.

An exclusion zone remains in place and the public have been urged to follow the directions of police and emergency services while HAZMAT crews conduct further testing.

Firefighters rescue a mischievous cow twice in 24 hours after the confused bovine made her way through a Western Sydney shopping centre.

The body of the man remains under several tonnes of concrete and scaffolding while authorities work to remove him after the gruesome incident at a school in Sydney, Australia

MORNING BRIEFING: Ten people have died and 40 people have been injured in fire-related deaths with winter only at the halfway mark.

A major blaze at an electrical substation south of Sydney is expected to burn for days after nearby residents in Wollongong and Unanderra were told to

Investigators with Fire and Rescue NSW are examining the motor of a fridge after a woman and a man, both aged in their 70s, died in a house fire in Western Sydney.