Machine catches fire in Tully factory

Emergency services crews have extinguished a machine fire in a factory south of Cairns. Latest.

Emergency service crews are on the ground at a factory fire in the Cassowary Coast, after a piece of machinery burst into flames. Picture: NewsWire / John Gass

Emergency services crews have extinguished a machine fire in a factory in Tully after a piece of machinery reportedly caught fire on Thursday morning.

A Queensland Fire Department spokeswoman confirmed three crews attended the scene of a factory fire at Hort Street in Tully at 5.45am.

“There was some machinery, like a shredder, was on fire inside a factory,” the spokeswoman said.
“It doesn’t look like it was fully engulfed when we got there, just smouldering.”

Originally published as Machine catches fire in Tully factory