The Hilton is on fire & 3 beaches open | NEWS UPDATE

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your News Now. It's six thirty. An hour later on
the tweed Hi, I'm Lucy Reese. As terrifying inferno at
a high rise hotel in Surface Paradise is not believed
to be suspicious. A blaze erupted on top of the
hilton at around two am, forcing everyone inside the hotel
to evacuate. Embers rained down on the balconies and streets below,

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causing several smaller fires, with firefighters battling the fires for
around forty minutes. Meantime, a car has been torched in
an underground car park in Surfers. It happened around seven
pm last night on Peninsula Drive, with the flames taking
hold of a second vehicle as well. A crime scene

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has been declared. Council is hopeful more of our beaches
will be able to open over the next few days.
It comes after three beaches were deemed safe enough for
swimmers yesterday afternoon, with the red and yellow flags going
up at Burley, Greenmount and cool and Gadda and Australia
is facing its worst school attendance crisis in a decade,

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a hangover from COVID nineteen. Nearly half a million children
are skipping school regularly, while two and ten teens are
dropping out before year twelve.