Hero neighbour ‘heartbroken’ about death of three children in Sydney fire

Jarrod Hawkins crawled into the smoke-filled home to save the children from the Lalor Park house fire on Sunday

A heroic neighbour who helped rescue children from a deadly house fire says he's heartbroken that three young kids died in the catastrophic blaze.

Three children aged six, two and five months were killed in the fire at Lalor Park, in Sydney's west, early on Sunday.

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