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Two Dead After Fires in Horror Night

Police say the fires are not being treated as suspicious as investigators probe two deaths and a third person’s serious injuries.

  • Two separate house fires in Western Sydney and the NSW South Coast killed two people and left a third person seriously injured on Wednesday.
  • Police responded to a home on Tuncoee Road in Villawood just after 6 p.m. Wednesday, where they located a house well alight and an elderly woman died in the blaze.
  • A woman in her 70s was treated for smoke inhalation before dying in hospital, while another woman in her 50s was taken to Liverpool Hospital "as a precaution."
  • Later that evening, South Coast Police District officers discovered a mobile home fire on Greens Road in Greenwell Point, 15km east of Nowra, where an elderly man died.
  • Another man was treated for serious burns and smoke inhalation at the scene; police confirmed the incident is not being treated as suspicious and the investigation remains ongoing.
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Mother dies following house fire in Sydney's west

A mother has died and her daughter is in hospital following a suspect cooking fire in Sydney’s west overnight.

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Two dead after fires in horror night

A night of horror has unfolded in NSW, with two separate home fires claiming lives within hours of each other.

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Firefighters receive an alert on Tuesday at 16H02 for "a departure of a prairie fire on the commune of Lhoumois", and when first aid arrives at 16H16, the fire has already won a forage shed and a dwelling house, says in a press release the deputy prosecutor of the Republic in Niort, Nina Blanchon. The "three fully calcined bodies" discovered at the end of the evening were not identifiable, says the same source, pointing out that in the "view of …

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Three people were found dead on Tuesday in a burning house near Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres. The fire would have left a field where several fire starts were found. In fighting the fire, the firemen were far from knowing that they were going to make a macabre discovery. An investigation was opened to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy. The gendarmes will first seek to identify the victims and to know the causes of their death. (P…

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Revue de presse Police & Réalités broke the news on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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