Western Downs emergencies: Chinchilla house fire and Wieambilla quad bike accident

Paramedics and firefighters responded to two separate incidents overnight in Chinchilla and Wieambilla on the Western Downs. Here’s the latest.

A man in his 60s was flown to Toowoomba Hospital in a stable condition following an incident with a quad bike on a Wieambilla property on Thursday April 20,2023. Picture: LifeFlight.

Emergency services crews were kept busy overnight after a spate of incidents across the Western Downs on Thursday April 20.

Paramedics transported an elderly man in a stable condition to Chinchilla Hospital following a house fire at a Middle St, Chinchilla residence at 7.23pm.

A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said three crews attended the scene to battle the blaze, which had engulfed the entire building.

“It was a single-storey building, fully-involved,” he said.

“There’s a fire investigator on their way right now.”

The story will be updated as more details emerge from the investigation.

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A man in his 60s was flown to Toowoomba Hospital in a stable condition following an incident with a quad bike on a Wieambilla property at 4.15pm.

It’s believed the man had been attempting to reverse a quad bike off the back of a trailer, when the ramp collapsed. He suffered shoulder injuries as a result.

The Toowoomba-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew was called into action just before 5pm.

Local Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics transported the man from the scene of the incident to a nearby health facility, where they met with the aeromedical crew.

The patient was then flown to Toowoomba Hospital, for further treatment.