Those dreams were reduced to a smouldering pile of rubble by Friday,as firefighters extinguished the final flames and police investigating the blaze as suspected arson questioned two teenagers.
Two 13-year-old schoolchildren are assisting police with their inquiries after a massive fire tore through two heritage-listed buildings in Surry Hills on Thursday.
A major fire has broken out near Central Station in Sydney. Emergency services are on the scene.
Police have spoken to a 29-year-old woman at the scene after children,aged five and four,were found unconscious in a home in Airds.
Emergency services were called to Shelly Beach after a group of swimmers got into difficulty.
Noa Sage,20,is still missing more than 24 hours after he fell seven metres onto rocks at North Head before waves pulled him into the sea.
The young boy is believed to have climbed onto a chair before falling off an apartment balcony in Mount Druitt.
A woman was pulled unconscious from the water at Gordons Bay in the eastern suburbs and a surfer died near Jervis Bay.
Emergency services were called to reports of a scrub fire in bushland around Appin,south of Campbelltown,before 3pm on Boxing Day.
A bystander applied a tourniquet fashioned from a belt to the right leg of a man whose foot was cut off after a car accident in Sydney’s west.
Calls for help came in about 2pm on Monday after the 24-year-old man became tangled in trees up to 10 metres above the ground at Wilton,in the Macarthur region.