A man has faced court after being charged following a building fire at Granville on Tuesday.
About 3.50am on Tuesday, March 12, emergency services were called to the intersection of Parramatta Road and Good Street, Granville, following reports of a fire.
Fire and Rescue NSW attended and extinguished the blaze inside an abandoned building.
Officers attached to Cumberland Police Area Command arrested a 42-year-old man at the scene.
He was taken to Granville Police Station and charged with ‘damage property by fire/explosive’.
He was refused bail to appear at Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday, March 13, where bail was formally refused, to appear before the same court on Thursday, March 21.
Ellie Busby is a news reporter for Western Sydney Publishing Group. A graduate of the University of Hertfordshire and Western Sydney University, she is a journalism Major. Ellie has worked with Universal Media, The Cova Project and for a range of other organisations. In 2024, Ellie was named Young Writer of the Year at the Mumbrella Publish Awards.