Nerve-wracking moment man scales the balconies of a high-rise resort building as ‘suspicious’ fire rips through an apartment
- Blaze lights up beach-front Gold Coast hotel
- Man seen scaling balconies to escape
A man has made a daredevil escape from a ‘suspicious’ fire that threatened to engulf a popular hotel clambering across the outside of the high-rise building.
Emergency services were called to a fire at the Equinox Sun Resort on Main Beach Parade at Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast, at 12.47am on Sunday.
Footage shared online showed a man in shorts precariously stepping from one railing to another to escape the inferno.
A man made a perilous escape from a ‘suspicious’ fire inside a high-rise hotel after midnight on Saturday night at Surfers Paradise
Emergency services rushed to the Equinox Sun Resort due to a blaze on the 11th storey of the Main Beach Parade hotel at Surfers Paradise at 12.47am on Sunday morning
He appeared to have safely navigated the dangerous escape, stepping from high-rise balcony to the next.
Queensland Ambulance said 82 people were treated at the scene with four rushed to hospital.
These included a man with minor burns, a woman in her 80s with chest pains, a man in his 40s with a cut to his head and a man in his 80s who experienced dizziness.
All patients were in a stable condition.
Dozens of people were forced to flee the blaze, which was brought under control by 10 fire crews at around 2am.
Guests on each level had to be evacuated and the building was ventilated after the fire was doused.
Queensland Police established a crime scene at the hotel and are continuing investigations into the ‘suspicious’ fire.
Ten fire crews were needed to bring the fire under control, which appeared to start in a hotel room on the 11th floor of the Equinox Sun Resort on Main Beach Parade
Guests on each level had to be evacuated and the building was ventilated after the fire was doused
Queensland Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that no charges had been laid by 9am Sunday.
‘Police are investigating a suspicious fire at a Surfers Paradise unit complex early this morning, July 16,’ a police statement said.
They called on anyone with information to contact Policelink at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting or by calling 131 444.
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