Ah, flammable cladding. Canberra this time, via the AFR:
Residents of a Canberra high-rise apartment building avoided potential tragedy this month when a smouldering cigarette ignited combustible cladding on the wall and balcony of a second-level unit.
Five firefighting vehicles rushed to Glebe Park Apartments on the afternoon of August 7 after the cigarette butt set fire to a cloth-covered sofa on the apartment balcony and the fire spread to the 100 per cent polyethylene-core panels on the building at 15 Coranderrk Street.
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