{"id":632940,"date":"2026-04-26T23:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:27:14","slug":"five-people-rescued-two-still-unaccounted-for-in-bowen-mountain-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632940\/","title":{"rendered":"Five people rescued, two still unaccounted for in Bowen Mountain house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two children are unaccounted for and a police investigation is underway after a house fire at Bowen Mountain.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to a home at Lieutenant Bowen Road in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in the Hawkesbury region just after 2am on Monday, where a fire had caused extensive damage.<\/p>\n

NSW Police said a total of five people escaped the fire, including two adults and three children.<\/p>\n

\"Bowen<\/p>\n

Firefighters responded to the blaze about 2am on Monday at Bowen Mountain. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

NSW Ambulance said four people were transported to Nepean Hospital, including two primary school aged children, a man in his 30s and a teenage boy.<\/p>\n

All were in a stable condition and were being treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n

\"Bowen<\/p>\n

The fire has caused extensive damage. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

A crime scene was established and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fire was ongoing.<\/p>\n

The NSW Rural Fire Service said the roof collapse would affect their ability to continue the search safely.<\/p>\n

NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Trent Curtin said firefighters could not get inside the home and spent two hours getting it under control.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters’ dynamic risk assessment would have shown them that it would be too dangerous to go inside the home while it was collapsing,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is a two-storey home, and so it would have been very, very dangerous for firefighters to access the home in the early stages with the home fully engulfed in flames.”<\/p>\n

Commissioner Curtin said fire investigators were using drones and a canine detection dog in the search for the two children unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

\"Commissioner<\/p>\n

Trent Curtin said it was a challenging circumstance for firefighters on the scene. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

He said the family affected by the house fire was being assisted by the local community.<\/p>\n

“[It was] very tough for our firefighters, our local members of the community who responded to support \u2026 we’ve had more than 50 firefighters here today,” Commissioner Curtin said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very close-knit community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children are unaccounted for and a police investigation is underway after a house fire at Bowen Mountain.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,306561,306562,17724,306563,40360,306564,306565,44],"class_list":["post-632940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bowen-mountain","tag-bowen-mountain-house-fire","tag-emergency-services","tag-hawkesbury-housefire","tag-house-fire","tag-kids-missing-in-house-fire","tag-lieutenant-bowen-road-house-fire","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}