Man burnt as suspicious fire guts Goomeri home

The occupant of a Goomeri home has been injured while fleeing an early morning blaze which gutted his home.

Fireys battled for more than an hour to extinguish a blaze which engulfed a timber home at Goomeri early Tuesday morning.

Police are investigating a suspicious early morning house fire at Goomeri which left a man with burns to his legs.

Emergency crews were called to the high set timber home at Hodge St shortly before 4.20am Tuesday, forcing its occupant to flee the building.

A QFES spokeswoman said the house, located no more than 100m away from the town’s police station, was “well involved” by the time crews arrived.

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Fireys battled for more than an hour to bring it under the control, and by 5.30am crews had extinguished the blaze and were damping down remaining hot spots.

The man, in his 70s, suffered minor burns to his legs and was taken to Murgon Hospital in a stable condition.

Emergency crews were called to the Hodge St Goomeri home shortly before 4,20am Tuesday morning to find the house “well involved”.

Police said investigations into the fire are ongoing.

It is the latest in a string of suspicious fires across the Gympie region in the past few months.

In July two timber train carriages were destroyed in a suspicion fire at the Mary Valley Rattler, and in early September a Mary St shop was damaged in a suspicious blaze.

At the end of September a popular auto parts shop near Gympie’s CBD was destroyed in another fire.