Unit fire in Bondi

Published: 1st August 2008

In the early hours of the morning firefighters from Bondi and Woollahra responded to a fire in a unit in Ocean St, Bondi. Crews arrived within eight minutes to find a very fierce fire in a bedroom of a unit on the second level of a six level apartment block. Firefighters were able to confine the fire to the bedroom and extinguish the fire within an hour. Due to very heavy smoke approximately sixty people were safely evacuated and four persons were treated for smoke inhalation and transported to hospital.