Popular cafe 'totally destroyed' by fire

AAP report, in the Sydney Morning Herald:

"A popular cafe in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Glebe has been gutted by fire.
A nearby resident called emergency services after waking to the smell of smoke about 3.30am today, firefighters said.
They arrived at Cafe Otto, on Glebe Point Road, near the intersection with Parramatta Road, to find the brick and iron building engulfed in flames.
They tried to gain entry, but were beaten back by heat, flames and smoke.
It took 20 minutes for 20 firefighters to control the fire, but they stopped it from spreading to shops on either side of the cafe.
It took a further two hours to fully extinguish the blaze, a spokesman said.
"The tin roof collapsed into the building making it unsafe for firefighters to enter," the NSW Fire Brigades spokesman said.
"The cafe is totally destroyed."
No one was inside the cafe and no one was injured, he said.
No residents were evacuated, but the road has been closed and could remain so "for some time" as the clean-up begins.
At this stage the fire is not considered suspicious, but police and firefighters will investigate, the spokesman said."

Read the full article from the Sydney Morning Herald here.