Police Rescue Pet From Blaze
A Blackbutt police officer has been praised after helping rescue a family dog from a house fire in Blackbutt North earlier this month.
A Blackbutt police officer has been praised after helping rescue a family dog from a house fire in Blackbutt North earlier this month.
A crime scene was declared by police after fire destroyed a house at Coominya on Saturday night.
A site has been chosen for Kingaroy’s much-needed new fire station … in the Barron Park Drive industrial estate, located parallel to the Bunya Highway.
Firefighters were called to an incident on the Burnett Highway at Johnstown about 1:30pm on Thursday after reports of a truck on fire.
Two people were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation after a house fire at Crawford on Wednesday afternoon.
A house and shed were destroyed by fire in an early morning blaze at Blackbutt North on Tuesday.
A small cooking fire on a stove top sparked a callout to firefighters in Blackbutt on Wednesday morning.
The State Government has adjusted the controversial Rural Fire banking scheme to ensure rural brigades now receive interest on their individual deposits.
Emergency services were called about 10:30am on Monday to a single-vehicle rollover at Gilla.
Firefighters were battling a large shed fire at Glenrock on Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to a car on fire in the early hours of Monday morning in Murgon.
An elderly man was taken to hospital as a precaution after fire destroyed a caravan in Murgon on Tuesday evening.
A large grass fire – believed to have been sparked by a slasher – came within 100 metres of a house and damaged electricity poles at Wooroolin on Thursday afternoon.
Rural fire crews were back at Goodger on Monday morning to check containment lines around a large paddock fire which broke out on Sunday afternoon.
A tractor pulling a slasher was destroyed in a blaze which spread to nearby grassland at Haly Creek on Tuesday afternoon.
A JJ’s Waste garbage truck was forced to quickly dump its load on Friday afternoon after a fire broke out inside its collection hopper.
A fire in a large storage shed at Widgee on Thursday afternoon forced Ergon Energy to cut power to local residents until damage to powerlines could be assessed.
A fire in a house in Tuite Street, Kingaroy, was quickly extinguished by firefighters on Sunday afternoon.
Police are investigating a fire which destroyed a house in a rural residential area north of Blackbutt late on Friday night.
A two-storey brick home and a caravan parked nearby were extensively damaged by fire in Blackbutt on Thursday afternoon.