Firefighters rush to Dyson St in Reservoir after fire rips through three homes

Thick smoke is blanketing Melbourne’s north after a blaze ripped through three houses with more than 30 firefighters called in to stop the fire spreading.

Thick smoke is blanketing Melbourne’s northern suburbs after a blaze ripped through three houses.

Emergency services responded to three house fires on the corner of Dyson St and Banbury Rd, near Edwards Lake Park in Reservoir about 8.35am on Wednesday.

More than 30 firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find two separate weatherboard homes ablaze, with another house on the street also on fire.

A fire has ripped through three homes on Dyson St in Reservoir on Wednesday. Picture: supplied/Facebook.

The fires were declared under control within an hour and contained to a double-storey townhouse and two single-storey homes.

No injuries were recorded.

A community advice notice was issued warning of heavy smoke surrounding the suburb and authorities urged locals to close all windows and doors and turn off heating and cooling systems.

Thick smoke is visible across the northern suburbs after a fire erupted on Dyson St in Reservoir, burning through three homes on Wednesday morning. Picture: supplied/Facebook.

A resident posted on social media: “I’m so sorry for whoever owns this home, and I hope everyone got out in time”.

Another warned the area was an “absolute sh-t show”.

“If you are in that area, close your windows and rewash any clothes hanging outside before wearing them,” they wrote.

It comes after two stores were set ablaze overnight in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, with police probing whether they’re linked to the city’s ongoing tobacco war.

A couple living in a room attached to a Meadow Heights milk bar ran for their lives as a Ford Ranger was smashed through the front of the shop and set on fire.

The Al Marjan restaurant in Campbellfield also went up in flames for the second time after the Middle Eastern restaurant on the Hume Highway was torched by arsonists in May.