Australia: Arson investigation warranted in Sydney and Wellington. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
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🗓️ 28 May 2023
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Australia: Arson investigation warranted in Sydney and Wellington. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65718709
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| 0:02.0 | What's new where I live? |
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| 0:15.0 | This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelors, downtown Sydney. |
| 0:20.0 | A huge fire. |
| 0:22.0 | Roaring into the nighttime and then during the day, black smoke pouring out. |
| 0:27.0 | And I welcome Scott Maaman of CBS News, who's in Brisbane. |
| 0:31.0 | This is when we're coming wintertime. The temperatures are brisk. |
| 0:35.0 | And the fire looks to have been out of control for a while. I watched the video of the fireman pouring water on it. |
| 0:42.0 | The smoke and the flames damaged all the buildings around them. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm told this is downtown Sydney, which I don't know, so I depend upon Scott. |
| 0:51.0 | Scott is this old parts of Sydney, the original colony, good evening to you. |
| 0:56.0 | G'day, John. Yeah, this is mixed in with a lot of heritage area, but you are right. |
| 1:03.0 | It is downtown Sydney, central station just around the corner, central railway station. |
| 1:09.0 | This was an incident which had the whole of Australia glued to their TVs to watch this building just go up and smoke and let the fire, |
| 1:19.0 | which lasted about 12 hours. |
| 1:22.0 | 135 fighters were involved in fighting this blaze. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, we're lucky. |
| 1:29.0 | It was kept within that particular building. |
| 1:33.0 | Sure, there's going to be smoke damage and other related damage to the surrounding area. |
| 1:38.0 | The facade of the building crashed down into the street below. |
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