BY IAN CROUCH
One person has been treated for smoke inhalation after fire engulfed a unit at Mayfield overnight.
Emergency services were called to a two storey apartment complex in Hanbury Street just after 10.30pm on Thursday 5 February 2026 to find one of the units well alight.
Newcastle Fire Command says 7 fire trucks, a ladder platform and 2 support vehicles were deployed to the fire, taking about 30 minutes to bring the blaze under control.
All the residents of the Department of Housing complex were safely evacuated and one person was treated at the scene by paramedics.
It's understood the fire started in the kitchen of the unit.
Crews took around 90 minutes to fully extinguish the fire which was contained to the one unit.
