A stable at the Foxton Racecourse was engulfed in flames last night, the second fire there in three days.

Police have charged a man with four counts of murder following yesterday's fire at an aged care facility.

Up to 10 people are dead with many injured after an horrific fire ripped through a west Sydney nursing home this morning. NSW's top firefighter called it "a tragic scene", adding that many of the elderly people could not get "out of harms way".