Retirement village blaze prompts call for special fire truck for Logan

A blaze, which ripped through a retirement village in Mt Warren Park on Monday night, has sparked calls for Logan to get its own special fire truck.

Fireys use a new aerial pumping truck which had to come from Wishart at the fire at Mt Warren Park on Monday night.

A FIRE, which ripped through a retirement village last night, has prompted calls for the state government to provide Logan with its own special aerial pumping truck.

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Two elderly residents from the Noyea Retirement Village in Martens St, Mt Warren Park, were taken to hospital after the fire gutted a residential unit and then burned through six garages.

A special pumping truck with a large ladder is used to put out the fire at Mt Warren Park last night.

A 67-year-old woman was taken to hospital suffering shock.

An elderly man, a neighbour in the complex, was also treated for smoke inhalation from battling the blaze before fireys arrived.

Logan House Fire support Network founder Louise Naumovski said the state government needed to buy Logan its own Combined Aerial Pumping Appliance Fire Truck, instead of having to use the one stationed at Wishart.

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“Logan is the state’s hotspot for structure fires so it makes sense for one of these special trucks to be stationed in the Logan Command,” he said.

“We’ve used the truck twice in Logan for two significant fires in two weeks since it was handed over.”

A burned out car in one of the gutted garages at the retirement village at Mt Warren Park.

The new $1.8 million fire truck has a 20m ladder which gives officers better access to attack fires from above allowing them to be extinguished quicker and stop them spreading.

Mr Naumovski said it was important not to have a delay getting these vehicles to fires to contain the threat to other properties.

Emergency crews were called to the retirement village just after 11pm on Monday night after reports a fire had erupted in a garage.

A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman said the fire spread to two nearby structures, both of which were “well-involved” in flames by the time crews arrived.

Seven fire crews were sent to the scene and managed to bring the blaze under control by 12.21am on Tuesday.