Currumbin Valley house fire: Woman treated for burns after rural house destroyed by raging fire

Critical care paramedics are treating a woman for burns to her upper-body after she managed to escape a raging house fire on the Gold Coast. SEE VIDEO

A woman is in a serious but stable condition after sustaining significant burns to her head, face and arms in a house fire at Currumbin Valley.

A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman confirmed the patient, aged in her 60s, was en route to RBWH in Brisbane by road.

The single-storey dwelling on Currumbin Creek Road, near the Eco Village, was “well engulfed” by the time five fire crews, including rural firefighters, arrived on scene just before 8am Tuesday.

Footage has since emerged online of the roof caved in and the home blackened from the ferocity of the blaze.

The fire has since been contained, crews further aided by a generous downpour just after 9am.

Bystanders, believed to be residents of a nearby property, did not wish to speak with media.

Fire investigators have arrived on scene.

House fire in Currumbin Valley. Picture: Nine Gold Coast News.

It is understood no other persons were inside the property at the time.

It was a loud explosion and the site of flames billowing from a low-set brick home at Currumbin Valley that first alerted neighbours to an early morning house fire.

Speaking from the scene, QFES Burleigh station manager Karl Slade said a woman in her 60s was in the kitchen when fire broke out about 7.30am.

“All we’ve heard is that she told Ambos that she was cooking or preparing food,” Mr Slade said.

Her partner was not home at the time.

“One of the neighbours said he had heard an explosion or bang and then saw flames and fire. He ran over to her property, managed to gain entry or bust a door down and drag her out.

“She was near the door and she was burnt.”

He confirmed the home had been badly destroyed: “It’s just like a flat pile of debris, there were two cars in the garage that couldn’t be saved.”

It took six crews of urban and rural firefighters about 90 minutes to fully contain the blaze.

“We had difficulties because there was no reticulated water there, we had to use our tank supplies. There were three urban trucks and three rural trucks to come and supply us with water because there was none,” Mr Slade said.

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