Event: Blue Mountains

Two bodies, believed to be those of children, have been found inside a Blue Mountains home destroyed by a fire which four other children and their father managed to escape.The family of six children, aged from three to 16, and their father, who is in his 30s, were inside the home in the small town of Bowen Mountain in the foothills of the Blue Mountains when the home caught fire in the early hours of Monday morning.The family was due to move to Queensland on Monday, police said. The mother was already on her way to their new home and so was not inside when the fire struck.Sign up for the Breaking News Australia emailEmergency services were called to the home just after 2.10am, arriving around five to eight minutes later. About 60 firefighters from Fire and Rescue and the Rural Fire Service were needed to bring the blaze under control.NSW Fire and Rescue assistant commissioner Andrew Faunce said during a press conference on Monday morning that firefighters were unable to enter the home because of the intensity of the blaze. Neighbours had also tried to help before fire fighters arrived.“We had a very, very fully developed fire at the point in time, and with structural collapse already occurring through the roof cavity it was just deemed too unsafe for firefighters to make entry, to conduct any kind of rescue or search at that point in time,” Faunce said.“Firefighters at the time deployed some defensive measures and and started to bring the fire under control … And then after about 3.30am this morning firefighters went into a more of an offensive searching of the premises as well.”Police superintendent Nadine Roberts said two bodies were found – one upstairs and another downstairs – “believed to be that of the two children”.“As…