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Authorities are searching for a missing person among the rubble of an explosion at a home in Whalan in Sydney’s west.

The blast on Waikanda Crescent levelled most of the two-storey home just before 1pm on Saturday, blowing out windows and damaging a neighbouring townhouse.

The focus of effort is to really be exploring the building as thoroughly as we can try and make access to either physically inspect or, with the use of our tools, to inspect each possible area.

There’s been a range of complications throughout the operation.

The job of rescue (teams) is to work their way through and try and find spaces in that collapse area where someone might have been caught.

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