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SYDNEY - Firefighters are battling a massive blaze in a large multi-storey building in central Sydney as emergency services cordoned off the area.
Television footage showed firefighters trying to put out the fire in a building close to Sydney’s central railway station. A car parked nearby was also in flames. “Terrible fire in Surry Hills in my electorate. Please stay safe and listen to instructions from emergency services,” lawmaker Tanya Plibersek said in a statement on Twitter.
Light rail services near the blaze were suspended until further notice, an update from New South Wales Transport said.Burning embers were also swept onto a balcony in a nearby building, the television footage showed.A spokesman for the New South Wales Ambulance declined to comment. REUTERS
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