{"id":368167,"date":"2025-12-29T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=368167"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:19:09","slug":"busy-time-for-emergency-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/12\/29\/busy-time-for-emergency-crews\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Time For Emergency Crews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 29, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local emergency services have been kept busy over the festive break:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>A man aged in his 50s was transported by ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital with minor injuries after a single-vehicle rollover at Ellesmere on Christmas Eve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Kumbia Road about 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>On Christmas Day, paramedics were called to a single-vehicle collision on Simpsons Road at Wondai just before 12:30am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vehicle had left the road and hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p>A man with minor injuries was taken to Kingaroy Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people, a man aged in his 30s with minor injuries; and a woman in her 40s with minor chest and arm injuries, declined transport to hospital.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>On Saturday (December 27), a man aged in his 20s was taken by ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital in a stable condition with minor leg injuries after his vehicle crashed off a bridge into water near Wondai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the incident on the Bunya Highway about 8:15pm.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>On Sunday (December 28), three fire crews were called just before 3:00am after smoke was seen coming from the verandah of a vacant house in Jerome Street, Cherbourg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews extinguished a small fire in a front room of the house and then ventilated the building.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of the incident.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Also on Sunday, emergency services were called about 5:40pm after reports of a fire in a caravan at the Bjelke-Petersen Dam camping grounds at Moffatdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the van had extinguished the fire before fire crews arrived.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Two fire crews were called at 2:20am after reports a car was on fire on the Wide Bay Highway, near the Kinbombi Road turn-off at Kinbombi,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was well-involved in flames when firefighters arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was extinguished within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Later on Monday, a primary school-aged boy was taken to Kingaroy Hospital in a stable condition with facial and abdominal injuries after a motorcycle crash on a private property near Hart Street, Blackbutt,\u00a0 reported at 11:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local emergency services have been kept busy over the festive break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":98458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[25,83,459,1132,26],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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