Fire and Rescue NSW shares update on Warrawong fire investigation

Illawarra Mercury

Fire and Rescue NSW station officer Craig Gordon shares insight into how they investigate fires such as the Todd Street apartment blaze in Warrawong in June. Footage by Nadine Morton

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00:00So today we've come down to establish the origin and cause of the fire that

00:03occurred here around quarter to three yesterday afternoon in the top level

00:06unit. What did you find in there? So one bedroom was primarily where the fire was

00:12contained to from great firefighting efforts from the local crews who

00:14attended this scene. Thankfully the fire didn't extend beyond that one unit so

00:19the rest of the unit block is still habitable at this time. The Senators

00:23contributed to our investigation today. He made a search through the facility

00:28up there and crime scene taking a sample from where the dogs work through that

00:32scene. So Xenos is an ignitable liquid detection canine and what that means he

00:36helps us hunt out whether ignitable liquids are present in the scene.

00:40Sometimes they're meant to be there sometimes they aren't and he effectively

00:44contributes to the investigation by letting us know where to take those

00:46samples which are further investigated by the police. So these guys are very good

00:51at their job. They're able to search for a scene very quickly. There's no

00:55scientific instrument that can work quicker than them so they're certainly

00:59valuable to our scene investigations and we're utilised right across the whole

01:03state every day. We regularly train these guys down to 0.5 of one microlitre so

01:09they're able to detect such minute amounts when we're training which

01:13transitions into real-world searches as well.

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