July 5, 2016
Fire investigators have been called in to determine the cause of separate fires that have destroyed two wooden houses in the South Burnett area within a day.
At 6:30pm on Monday, fire crews were called to a blaze in a house on Chinchilla-Wondai Road at Home Creek, near Cushnie.
A QFES spokesman said the old Queenslander was fully ablaze when firefighters arrived.
Twelve fire units – both urban and rural – attended and deployed hoses into the building but it could not be saved.
The fire was contained at 8:00pm and fully extinguished by 9:40pm.
The second house fire occurred on Tuesday morning at Inverlaw.
Eight fire crews were called to the blaze in a highset Queenslander on Benair Road about 9:30am.
The building was engulfed in flames when they arrived and the roof had collapsed.
The fire was contained by 10:22am and fully out at 12:27pm.
No one was injured in either fire.
- Footnote: A GoFundMe page has been set up to assist the family who lost their belongings in the Home Creek fire
