Railway Estate house fire extinguished

A Railway Estate home has avoided complete destruction after fire crews arrived in time to extinguish a blaze inside the house.

House fire, Pascoe Street, Railway Estate. Picture: Shae Beplate.

A Railway Estate home has avoided complete destruction after fire crews arrived in time to extinguish a blaze inside the house.

According to the Queensland Fire Department (QFD) emergency crews were called out to the house fire at 11.20am, Thursday (January 9).

When they arrived the two-storey home was “smoke logged” and a fire was located inside one of the rooms.

House fire, Pascoe Street, Railway Estate. Picture: Shae Beplate.

Paramedics were also called and attended a person at the scene, but they were deemed stable and did not require transport.

This fire comes after a string of home fires in Townsville over the Christmas holidays, including a Boxing Day house fire in Garbutt which claimed the life of a man, and another which has left a mother of ten homeless.

Originally published as Railway Estate house fire extinguished