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Man and two dogs found dead after suspicious house fire

Police have established a crime scene after a 20-year-old was found dead, in the second fatal house fire in as many days.

  • William Davis

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The Brown Avenue house collapsed about 10.20am on Thursday.

Ashgrove house collapses with elderly woman inside

The woman had a lucky escape on Thursday morning when her house collapsed around her, as it fell off its stumps.

  • Cameron Atfield and William Davis
Onlookers after the mysterious explosion in Surfers Paradise.

Underground blasts in Surfers Paradise caused by electrical fault

Tourists and workers scattered after the first of several explosions rocked the Glitter Strip on Sunday afternoon.

  • Marissa Calligeros
Smoke could be seen billowing from a unit on Lower Bowen Terrace in New Farm on Sunday morning.

Second possible e-scooter battery fire on same inner-city street

Fire investigators are working to determine if an e-scooter battery started a blaze that ripped through a New Farm unit.

  • Cloe Read
Raven died in an apartment fire at Thorneside while her parents Matthew and Chloe Louise Rodgers-Falk were in NSW.

Fire crew expects to find babysitter’s body in home where girl died

An eight-year-old who loved shopping and socialising and whose family nicknamed her “Turtle” has died in an inferno east of Brisbane.

  • William Davis and Cameron Atfield
The Queensland Fire Department is set for sweeping reforms after a review raised questions over workplace culture.

‘Lack of trust’: Fire service set for reform amid bullying fears

Consultants called in to examine the culture inside the Queensland Fire Department found a “culture of silence” and “fear of retribution” for speaking out.

  • William Davis
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Queensland Rural Fire Brigade Association’s general manager says firefighters in the early 1990s experienced the same toxic culture and nothing had changed since.

Firefighters rang bell at ‘attractive’ women in Brisbane training centre

A toxic “macho” culture and sexual harassment within the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service have been a problem for decades, a union says.

  • Savannah Meacham
Multiple Queensland Fire and Rescue crews are on scene at a fire that is affecting several properties on Evelyn St, Grange.

Fire rips through multiple Brisbane homes

Several people were treated at the scene for burns, as firefighters battled to protect other properties from the blaze.

  • Cloe Read
Samford Rural Fire Brigade members attending Black Summer fires in 2019-20.

Fire fight over ‘hostile takeover’ of local brigades

A country revolt is brewing over a state government “hostile takeover” of rural fire brigades, under legislation before the Queensland parliament this week.

  • Cameron Atfield
An emergency crew helps rescue a man from deep mud in Moreton Bay.

Quick-thinking Qld paramedics rescue man from mud with just seconds to spare

With a MacGyver sense of problem-solving, the pair managed to extricate the boater as the tide threatened to engulf him.

  • Savannah Meacham

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