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Nearly 40 homes in the Perth metropolitan area were damaged in severe storms overnight.
Emergency services volunteers were called out to 37 homes across Perth to help repair damaged and leaking roofs caused by falling trees and destructive winds.
The weather bureau said a wind gust of 93 km/h was recorded at Jandakot at 2am this morning.
Most of the damage caused by last night's storm was minor, FESA said.
Today, the weather bureau cancelled the severe weather warning it issued yesterday saying the worst of the storm had passed.
Showers and isolated thunderstorms and possible hail is forecast for the city today.
Temperatures are expected to reach a maximum of 15C in Perth today, warming up slightly tomorrow when the mercury is expected to reach a high of 18C
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Saturday, 15 August 2009
Man runs in to burning house to offer help
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A 19-year-old Perth man has risked injury to run into a burning house in Langford to save another man.
Paul Yokoju was visiting a house in Osten Drive last night when he heard cries for help.
He ran outside and saw the neighbour trying to control the blaze with a garden hose.
The man then ran inside the house which was well ablaze.
Mr Yokoju says he knew he might have been injured, but followed the man inside.
The house was badly damaged by the fire.
The cause of the blaze is not yet known
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A 19-year-old Perth man has risked injury to run into a burning house in Langford to save another man.
Paul Yokoju was visiting a house in Osten Drive last night when he heard cries for help.
He ran outside and saw the neighbour trying to control the blaze with a garden hose.
The man then ran inside the house which was well ablaze.
Mr Yokoju says he knew he might have been injured, but followed the man inside.
The house was badly damaged by the fire.
The cause of the blaze is not yet known
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Langford home gutted by car fire
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AN elderly couple's Langford home was partially destroyed by a fire that started in a garaged car about 9.30pm last night.
The 68-year-old husband, the only occupant at the time, went back into the blazing Osten Dve house after attempting to put out the fire with a garden hose, neighbour Paul Yokoju, 19, said.
Mr Kokoju followed to get the man out.
``There was smoke everywhere. When I asked him if there was anyone else he said `no','' Mr Yokoju said.
The fire destroyed the garaged small hatchback, the lounge room, a bedroom and the brick and tile bungalow's kitchen
Losses included family items from Cambodia which the couple left before arriving in Australia in the early 1980s, the couple's daughter Latine Leng said
``They've lost a lots of things. Everything in there,'' she said.
Welshpool and Canning Vale firefighters took 15 minutes to extinguish the fire before hosing hot spots.
Canning Vale FESA station officer Syd Davies said the fire was throught to have started in the car.
Damage to the house and car was initially estimated at $150,000.
Family is now housing the couple, it is understood.
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