Marrickville fire: Massive blaze erupts at a house just streets away from Anthony Albanese’s Sydney home

A huge contingent of firefighters is trying to control a fierce house fire just streets from Anthony Albanese’s Sydney home.

Fire and Rescue NSW confirmed that 30 firies and 12 trucks are trying to extinguish a a blaze that began a single level home on Hilltop Avenue at Marrickville in the city’s trendy inner west.

Several locals took to social media to post photos of the spectacular fire, which took hold in an abandoned heritage-listed house on a large block around 5.30pm.

It is understood the fire did not spread to nearby properties and that the Prime Minister’s home was not under threat. 

No injuries were reported. 

A massive house fire has erupted in Marrickville, just streets from the Prime Minister’s home on Thursday afternoon. Pictured: The blaze in Hilltop Avenue in Sydney’s inner west

It is understood the fire did not spread to nearby houses and that the Prime Minister’s home was not under threat

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The fire filled the sky above the inner west suburb with acrid brown smoke.

One woman claimed on social media that the ‘massive house fire’ began in the empty freestanding timber home.

‘It went up so fast,’ she wrote. 

The Prime Minister lives in the same part of the cosmopolitan inner-city suburb, which is 20 minutes drive from Sydney’s CBD.

The area is known for a golf course, playing fields and the Cooks River.

‘Massive house fire in Marrickville right now. I hope everyone is alright,’ another man posted to X. 

A local woman claimed on social media that the ‘massive house fire’ began in an abandoned freestanding home

The house fire, which took hold in house near the Cooks River, sent plumes of smoke billowing above the busy streets