Leo the plucky Jack Russel Cross guarding what’s left of the family home in Melbourne, Australia the day after his heroics. It was ablaze when firefighters dodged fallen power lines to reach him and four newborn kittens he had refused to leave. Firefighters carried him out in the nick of time, reviving him with oxygen and heart massage. [Ken Brown, Metropolitan Fire Brigade]: “Leo wouldn’t leave the kittens and it nearly cost him his life.” An 11-year-old girl suffered smoke inhalation as she made her escape. She was at home with her mother, a five-year-old sister and 18-year-old brother when the fire started in the front room. Firefighters managed to rescue everyone. And thanks to Leo, the kittens haven’t used up any of their nine lives.

Police treating fatal fire as suspicious
POLICE are treating a fire in a Melbourne unit, in which a woman’s body was found, as suspicious and are urging the male occupant to come forward.

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Man dies in Vic house fire
An 86-year-old woman has lost her husband in a late night house fire in Rosebud, south of Melbourne.

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Fire guts city council chambers
FIRE has destroyed the Liverpool City Council chambers in Sydney’s southwest.

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Fire hits rubbish-filled house
An elderly woman described by fire crews as a hoarder has escaped from a fire that severely damaged her house.

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Fire razes home of new immigrant family
A family of Irish immigrants has fled their rented house after an open fire roared out of control.

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$5m damage in school fire
THE arson squad is investigating two fires that have caused more than $5 million damage to separate wings of a secondary school in Melbourne’s east.

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Residents evacuated over restaurant fire
About 200 people were evacuated from an apartment block in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton last night, when a fire broke out in a restaurant in the building.

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Arrest after teen’s fire terror
UPDATE 7.36am: MAN arrested after a house fire in Melbourne’s west that left a teenager fighting for her life with terrible burns.

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Girl badly injured in suspicious fire
POLICE have set up a crime scene at a house in Melbourne’s west where a 14-year-old girl suffered shocking burns in a suspicious fire yesterday.

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Man found in car fire identified
The Times-Republican has confirmed the identity of a man who died following a vehicle fire early Sunday morning. That man was Charles Hall, 48, of Collins. The identity was confirmed by the man’s son, Benjamin Hall. Melbourne firefighters were called to the scene of the fire in the early-morning hours and discovered a man inside.

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Fire burns Melbourne fish oil factory
A blaze at a fish oil factory in Melbourne caused about $500,000 damage.

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Melbourne man dies in car fire
A 75-year-old man was killed when his car flipped onto its roof and caught fire south-west of Melbourne last night.

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