October 4, 2017
Emergency crews were called to Pimpimbudgee about 3:30pm on Wednesday after a fire which started in a farm truck spread to nearby grassland.
Four fire units – two urban and two rural – attended the blaze which began on a truck carrying a load of straw bales.
The incident occurred near the Middle Creek-Cooyar Road intersection with Kingaroy-Cooyar Road (between Maidenwell and the New England Highway turn-off).
It is not known at this stage how the fire started in the truck.
Front-end loaders were used to pull some of the burning bales off the truck to give firefighters an opportunity to spray foam on the rest of the load.
The truck was incinerated.
A man was taken to Nanango Hospital by ambulance suffering burns to his arm.
A QFES spokesperson said that at 4:30pm, the truck fire had been extinguished and firefighters were in the process of establishing a firebreak around the grass fire.
