Sunshine Coast rolling breaking coverage: Mount Ngungun closes

Park rangers have closed a Sunshine Coast hinterland peak popular with mountain climbers and abseilers.

Authorities have closed a Sunshine Coast hinterland mountain because of fears of rocks falling in a part of the mountain popular with rock climbers.

The Department of Environment today, July 15, announced that Mount Ngungun in the Glass House Mountains National Park was temporarily closed.

The closure was put in place by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service because of the potential risk of a serious rockfall at one of the mountain’s rock-climbing areas.

The closure applies to all permit holders and rock climbers, abseilers and to all other visitors to the affected area.

Rangers were on site earlier today to assess the matter and place appropriate notices on affected walking tracks and public areas.

A department spokesperson said, at this stage, the duration of Mount Ngungun’s temporary closure was unknown.

Members of the public were advised to monitor QPWS’s Park Alerts web pages for ongoing information.

Flame Grill’d: Blaze rips through iconic burger joint

A burger store on Noosa’s famous Hastings Street has been filled with smoke and evacuated following a fire this morning.

A Queensland Fire Department spokeswoman said two crews arrived at the scene of an electrical fire on the world-renowned tourist strip at Noosa Heads just before 8am this morning.

She said it was a small electrical equipment fire, that it had been contained, and hadn’t spread.

Grill’d on Hastings Street had been filled with smoke and was evacuated, along with an adjoining business.

The QFD spokeswoman confirmed the fire had been put out.

Fire crews at the scene of the fire on Hastings St in Noosa. Picture: Adam Bailey via Facebook

Two Queensland Fire Department crews are also on scene a shed fire on a private property at Mcgilchrist Rd, Palmwoods, on the Sunshine Coast.

A QFD spokeswoman said they arrived after 9.35am to find the five by five metre shed fully involved.

She said the crews are working to put it out.

Paramedics have also attended a crash at Maroochydore on Ocean St at 12.40pm today.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said it was a car and moped crash.

A woman in her 50s, who was operating the moped, was taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition with arm and leg injuries.

Originally published as Sunshine Coast rolling breaking coverage: Mount Ngungun closes