Tributes are flowing for a three-year-old boy who died in an early morning house fire, as his badly-burned father clings to life.
Emergency services were called to Newbury Street, Werribee in Melbourne's southwest, just after midnight on Monday.
Crews extinguished the blaze before finding a child deceased inside while a male resident was taken to hospital with serious injuries, Victoria Police said.
The child has been identified as three-year-old Jordan Dashwood in multiple media reports and a GoFundMe launched by a family friend.
"Little Jordan was a bright light in this world, full of innocent joy, and his absence leaves a void that can never be filled," the organiser, Jardine Jackson, wrote.
Jordan's mother Janelle and his older brother managed to escape the property, while his father Jeremy remains in a coma in hospital, she said.
