Overview
- Emergency services responded shortly after 2pm Monday to reports of a blaze on Dorothy Street in Fawkner in Melbourne’s north.
- Firefighters arrived to find the single-storey home fully alight and rescued an adult male occupant.
- Paramedics performed CPR on the child at the scene, but the three-year-old died there.
- The injured man was taken to The Northern Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
- Authorities have not determined the cause and urge anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.