Footage from major building fire in Surry Hills

This video shows our footage in chronological order from 25 May 2023 4PM - 26 May 2023 11:30AM.

Update: 26 May 2023 1:30PM

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews today remain at the scene of a major fire in Surry Hills, dousing reignition points and assisting with investigations.

The blaze, which at its peak was declared a '10th alarm', destroyed two multi-storey buildings on Randle Street yesterday afternoon.

More than 120 FRNSW firefighters and 30 fire trucks, from multiple stations across Sydney, battled into the night to contain and extinguish the flames.

They managed to save several buildings, including adjoining residential apartments and office blocks on the opposite side of the road.

The fire is now out, but a small number of fire crews remain on-site, monitoring for potential flare-ups.

They are being assisted by FRNSW's Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), or drones, which are helping pinpoint potential areas of concern.

Significant structural collapse has occurred at the site.

Engineers and other experts monitoring the stability of what remains of the buildings.

An exclusion zone is currently in place in the vicinity of the fire scene and, at this stage, is expected to remain for at least seven days.

As a result, at least 50 nearby residents have been left displaced.

[staticbuilds]

Showing the damage to the other buildings really help to show how dangerous and immense the heat is from the fire.

[FlorenceSlugcat]

This video shows the importance of two things.

The importance of keeping nearby building cool to prevent the spread on other buildings, such as the one infront
And the effectiveness of firewalls, which allowed to keep the buildings next door from the two that burned from going down aswell

[maxmouche]

Thanks a lot for sharing this and keeping the community informed. As a Surry Hills local who lives only a few minutes from the building, I’m thankful for the work of all the emergency services. Hope you’ll upload more great footage like this from yesterday and the days that will follow so as to keep us up to date.

[alexandragrace]

Absolutely terrifying. I walked passed the ruined building yesterday - there were still so many fire trucks, firefighters, police officers, engineers, and reporters there. Thank you to the firefighters for working so hard and facing dangerous conditions to protect the city from this fire. I sure hope those kids learned their lesson, and I hope that the Cadaver Dogs do not find any bodies in the rubble. 😢

[ronfreniere]

Haven't seen that much fire, since I was a kid growing up in a factory city.
Watching the old factories burn.
Hope there were no severe injuries to anyone who was related to this incident.
Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

[newenglandcoast]

What a huge fire, I hope no one was hurt. Incredible effort by the firefighters!

[willydmoore]

Wow, Hollywood couldn’t even create a fire scene as intense and dynamic as this one. Great job to the fire crews and you for the amazing recording. From USA, kudos.

[leokimvideo]

Poor Pigeons, lost their homes & little ones in this blaze. You can see them attempting rescues just as the wall collapses.

[digger]

Great video. Was really nice the way you covered things after the fire was out. Too many of these videos end with building still smoking and no explanations. Yours is the best!

[patbarlen]

What a horrific fire. Thanks for posting, good job

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

Keeping frontages facing the fire cool is so vitally important to stop the spread. Great work by your fire brigades. 😉

[MK-kvbm]

Great work to all the FRNSW on this job and all you do. Thank you.

[locoslococo]

I met a lovely Australian firefighter in London UK area.He had accumilated about a years worth of leave / holidays and was travelling around world for a year.he had been a fireman for quite a few years and now worked in fire prevention. One of the questions i asked him was, Did he miss being a fireman on active call? What he told me was something like ..He liked his work fighting fires but generally by the time he arrived on a call the fire had taken hold of the structure and often it resulted in exhuming remains of humans from the fire..He said that he found his prevention work saved many more lives getting smoke detectors and alarms fitted..Keep up the good work chaps and ladies Regards from UK.

[Kamil_O]

Great footage and amazing work done by firefighters,

[CretvMG]

Hey gents - thanks for all you do to help keep us safe. You run towards danger and we respect that.

[Thespiansewist]

My brother was in nsw fire brigade for over forty years and loved everyday serving as firemen.Special citizens I say thank you for serving and protecting the community

[jix]

Amazing how effectively it was contained. Relatively little damage to the building across the street, and the two attached buildings don't even look lightly singed!

[suzylarry]

that was a intense fire, the heat must have been horrendous . not much to investigate with the build falling in and around . A early report just after the fire started, there were videos of folks in the Restaurant across the street before fire entered the customers were sitting at tables eating and watching before evacuations . Hope no injuries

[stevepunter]

The heat that would be coming from that would be unbelievable.

[Noah-eyzf]

1:48 this fire literally just went to town!