Two homes completely destroyed in separate Sunshine Coast blazes
Two houses on the Sunshine Coast have been destroyed during separate house fires on Thursday. PHOTOS + LATEST.
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Two houses on the Sunshine Coast have been destroyed during separate house fires on Thursday.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said three crews were battling the blaze on Beerwah Pde, Beerwah, on Thursday morning.
The crews were called to the scene at 11.26am to find a single-storey Queenslander well involved.
All occupants of the house were accounted for, and the blaze was extinguished by 1pm.
It comes hours after multiple fire crews were called to a garage blaze in Currimundi.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman said seven fire crews were at the blaze on Moriac St, Currimundi, with the first crew arriving at 8.50am.
She said the garage was attached to a single-storey building and the blaze had been contained to the garage only. All persons were out of the building.
As of 9.25am, crews were still battling the blaze, which had spread slightly to the house, but was now under control.
A spokeswoman for the Queensland Ambulance Service said one woman was treated at the scene in a stable condition but did not require transport to hospital.
Earlier, two lanes of the Bruce Hwy needed to be closed on Thursday morning after a large truck rolled off the road.
Police and paramedics were called to the scene at Rosemount, near Nambour, around 8.30am to reports a truck was on its side off the road.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the driver self extricated from the vehicle and was uninjured and did not need transport.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said one lane of the highway was closed around 8.32am, but both lanes were closed at 9.30am for a heavy vehicle tow truck to safely remove the vehicle.
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Wednesday
Emergency services are on scene responding to a serious four-car crash near a roundabout on a busy motorway – with delays expected.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Queensland Ambulance Services, and Queensland Police are on scene to a car pile up south of the Yandina roundabout on the Sunshine Motorway, at Coolum Beach.
A QFES spokesman said they had a crew on scene and three on the way.
“It’s been reported as a three-to-four vehicle crash at 9.49am,” he said.
A QAS spokeswoman said they believed it was two vehicle crash and were on scene treating five patients while a police spokesman said they were also on scene responding to the three to four vehicle crash.
“Three patients will require transport. Two complaining of neck pain and two are uninjured,” she said.
A QPS spokesman said the motorway was closed and traffic had come to a stand still on the motorway and Yandina Coolum Rd near the crash.
EARLIER ON WEDNESDAY
Emergency services are on scene early this morning after a ute crashed on the Bruce Highway, flipped, and then rolled off the road – in a horrific scene for onlooking commuters.
A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said to expect delays after a single vehicle crash on Bruce Highway, at Chevallum, just after 6am this morning.
“There will be delays and traffic issues,” she said.
A QFES spokesman confirmed there was a crew on scene after a white sedan utility had smashed into a barrier, flipped, and then rolled off the road and into a ditch.
He said the crash was northbound.
The Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the male driver, 50, was being treated for minor head injuries.
QAS transported the man to Sunshine Coast University Hospital stable with a head injury.
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