At least SEVEN cars are destroyed in a late-night fire at an apartment complex after a vehicle is deliberately set alight
- Seven cars destroyed in late night fire at apartment complex in Brisbane’s south
- Police say car was deliberately lit in carport of the building on Wednesday night
- Flames spread to six cars with four more vehicles damaged by heat from the fire
- Building was evacuated just after 11:20pm with no residents injured in the blaze
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At least seven cars have been destroyed after a vehicle was deliberately set alight in a late night carport fire in Brisbane.
Police and QFES crews rushed to the blaze at an apartment complex on Gladstone Road in Dutton Park, in the city’s inner south, just after 11pm on Wednesday night.
First responders were confronted with seven cars on fire in the carport, with crews working to keep the flames from spreading into four social housing apartments.
One local posted a photo of the black flames of the fire to Twitter just after midnight, writing: ‘Something VERY on fire somewhere near Dutton Park.’
First responders were confronted with seven cars on fire in the carport, with crews working to keep the flames from spreading into four social housing apartments
One local posted a photo of the black flames of the fire to Twitter just after midnight, writing: ‘Something VERY on fire somewhere near Dutton Park’ (pictured, the post)
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A Queensland Police spokesman said the building and the neighbouring complex was evacuated about 11:20pm and that no one was injured in the fire.
At least seven cars were destroyed by the ‘ferocious’ flames with four other vehicles damaged by heat from the fire.
QFES officer Alex Pearl said it was the design of the corrugated iron carport that helped protect the rest of the building.
‘When fire crews arrived we had seven vehicles in a carport that were all on fire,’ he told The Courier Mail, adding that the flames were up to three metres high.
Police and fire crews rushed to the blaze at an apartment complex on Gladstone Road in Dutton Park, in the city’s inner south, just after 11pm on Wednesday night
One resident said she had been watching Netflix with her son when she heard the fire alarms, which she had assumed was a false alarm.
‘There was a fire here a few years ago and I thought, “oh it won’t happen again, it must be a false alarm”, but then I looked out and there was so much smoke and the sky was orange,’ the mother said.
Police have since declared a crime scene at the complex and have asked anyone who witnessed something suspicious or has dashcam footage from Gladstone Road about 11pm to come forward.
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