A 50-YEAR-OLD man has died in hospital after a fire tore through his home in Sydney’s inner west.
Emergency services were called to the blaze at a duplex on Stanley St in Putney shortly before 4am on Saturday, which forced the evacuation of surrounding residents, police said.
Fire fighters battled the fire for about an hour before an unconscious man was found inside the building.
The man, believed to be the only person who lived in the building, was taken to the hospital in a critical condition but later died.
It is understood that the man was evacuated to the front lawn of the premises where paramedics performed CPR. They continued to treat him in the ambulance on the way to Concord Hospital.
All the occupants were evacuated before the other part of the duplex caught alight.
All four were transported to hospital for smoke inhalation.
One firefighter was treated for exhaustion while three neighbours were taken to hospital for observation after smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire is not yet known but a crime scene has been established ahead of a forensic examination.
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