A massive fire has destroyed four homes overnight sparking an emergency declaration, with streets blocked off and nearby residents forced to evacuate.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Service crews were called to the site of the blaze on Heaslop St in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba just before 3am on Thursday.
The fire engulfed four properties, only two of which were reportedly occupied. There are no reports of injuries from the inferno.
At least 35 firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, which was put out hours later.
A massive blaze has destroyed four homes on Heaslop St in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba overnight
Queensland Fire and Emergency Service crews were called to the site of the blaze just before 3am on Thursday (pictured, firefighters at the scene)
A number of fire crews and emergency services remain at the scene.
Multiple ambulance crews are on standby to assist QFES crews.
Police made an emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act due to the fire – with the declaration removed a few hours later.
An exclusion zone had been established that included Heaslop Street, Merton Road, Catherine Street, and Annerley Road.
Those within the exclusion zone were asked to evacuate the area immediately.
Members of the public have been advised to avoid the exclusion zone.
Due to the large amount of smoke in the area, locals have also been advised to close their windows.
It is the second fire to break out in the suburb of Woolloongabba in just 24 hours, with firefighters only extinguishing a fire on Reid St just after 11am on Wednesday.
The huge inferno engulfed four properties, only two of which were reportedly occupied. There are no reports of injuries
At least 35 firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, which was put out hours after it started
An exclusion zone has been set up that includes Heaslop St, Merton Rd, Catherine St, and Annerley Rd
Those within the exclusion zone were asked to evacuate the area immediately as crews battled the blaze
A number of fire crews remain at the scene. Multiple ambulance crews are on standby to assist QFES crews
That comes just days after a man died and two others were taken to hospital after a ‘ferocious’ house fire engulfed three homes in nearby Hawthorne, which is about five kilometres from Woolloongabba.
The fire started at a home on Forbes Street in Hawthorne, Brisbane, before spreading to two neighbouring properties just after 8pm on Saturday.
Hugh Walker, 66, was rescued from the fire by two men in their 30s and rushed to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital before later dying.
The two men were also taken to the same hospital to be being treated for smoke inhalation.
A woman who escaped the same home as Mr Walker, believed to be his wife, was able to escape the home with minor injuries.
The fire is not being treated as suspicious, but the destruction left in the wake of the blaze has hindered authorities from investigating the source of the inferno.
Two homes were destroyed and a third was badly damaged, residents from all three properties were evacuated.
It comes just days after a man died and two others were taken to hospital after a ‘ferocious’ house fire engulfed three homes in nearby Hawthorne
The blaze was so fierce that some locals worried Brisbane’s Powerhouse arts centre 700 metres across the Brisbane River was burning.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) said its crews brought house fires under control by 9.20pm that night.
But even then it was generating ‘a large amount of smoke in the area and surrounding suburbs’.
Crews had warned all nearby residents to close their windows and doors.
Police and QFES were investigating the cause of the blaze on Sunday.
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