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Fire and Rescue NSW shares update on Warrawong fire investigation
Illawarra Mercury
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6/18/2025
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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So today we've come down to establish the origin and cause of the fire that
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occurred here around quarter to three yesterday afternoon in the top level
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unit. What did you find in there? So one bedroom was primarily where the fire was
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contained to from great firefighting efforts from the local crews who
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attended this scene. Thankfully the fire didn't extend beyond that one unit so
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the rest of the unit block is still habitable at this time. The Senators
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contributed to our investigation today. He made a search through the facility
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up there and crime scene taking a sample from where the dogs work through that
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scene. So Xenos is an ignitable liquid detection canine and what that means he
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helps us hunt out whether ignitable liquids are present in the scene.
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Sometimes they're meant to be there sometimes they aren't and he effectively
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contributes to the investigation by letting us know where to take those
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samples which are further investigated by the police. So these guys are very good
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at their job. They're able to search for a scene very quickly. There's no
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scientific instrument that can work quicker than them so they're certainly
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valuable to our scene investigations and we're utilised right across the whole
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state every day. We regularly train these guys down to 0.5 of one microlitre so
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they're able to detect such minute amounts when we're training which
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transitions into real-world searches as well.
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