Emergency services say 14 people were rescued at the facility on Mangan Street, Balwyn, on Sunday night
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Firefighters have rescued residents who were trapped inside a burning care facility in Melbourne’s east, with the blaze being treated as suspicious.
Many residents made phone calls to triple-0 just before 10pm on Sunday as smoke filled the two-storey building in Mangan Street, Balwyn.
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