A baby has died in a house fire that injured three other children and one adult.
Emergency services rushed to the home on Benboyd Circle in Rokeby, eastern Hobart, following reports of a house fire about 9am on Sunday.
‘The house was fully alight when police and Tasmania Fire Service crews arrived,’ Tasmania Police said in a statement.
‘Sadly, an infant was found deceased inside the residence, and another young child and an adult were taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital with serious injuries.’
Three other children were also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
‘Our thoughts and condolences are with everyone affected,’ police said.
The woman who called emergency services claimed there were ‘flames everywhere, out all the windows, lots of smoke’.
‘All the neighbours were coming to help … there was one man that had [taken] a fire extinguisher over and he smashed windows and got kids out,’ she told the ABC.
Witnesses reportedly heard windows exploding and people screaming.
Tasmania Fire Service will investigate the cause of the fire and police will prepare a report for the Coroner.
More to come.
