Body discovered following a house fire in Melbourne’s south

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Specialist arson police are investigating a house fire which left a person dead in Melbourne’s south-east last night. It’s the second fatal fire in Melbourne in two days.

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00:00Well, tragically, a body has been recovered from a house fire in Melbourne's South East

00:06last night.

00:07Emergency services were called at around 6.30 to a property on Goldborough Court in Frankston

00:12South.

00:13And after firefighters extinguished the blaze, they located a person dead inside.

00:17That person is yet to be formally identified, but a crime scene this morning has been established

00:22and an arson chemist and detectives will be on site trying to establish the circumstances

00:27around what caused the fire.

00:29Now, police cannot say yet whether it is being treated as suspicious, but they're urging

00:33anyone who witnessed the event or who has CCTV to come forward and contact police.

00:38This is the second fatal fire we've seen in Melbourne over the past couple of days.

00:43On the early hours of Sunday morning, a home was found fully ablaze when firefighters arrived

00:48in St Albans on Power Street, which is in Melbourne's North West.

00:52Now firefighters battled for almost an hour to try and put out the blaze, but it was so

00:56large that it was threatening nearby properties.

00:58In fact, a three-storey apartment building and nearby townhouses were forced to evacuate

01:04to escape the flames and the threat of them.

01:06Now that fire is still being investigated, but we believe at this point it is not being

01:10treated as suspicious.

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