Brisbane Fire Vulture Street
Neighbours reported hearing smoke alarms from the vulture street unit about 9 45pm and fire crews arrived at the scene.
Brisbane fire vulture street. South brisbane unit fire sends smoke across city. Police say all residents of the eight room boarding house have been accounted for. Fire has torn through a boarding house and neighbouring business in brisbane. Emergency services were called to an apartment block in vulture street east brisbane she was the only person at the unit at the time.
Emergency services raced to the boarding house and commercial building on vulture street in south brisbane just after 6am. The fire started in the boarding house and partially spread to the commercial building next door. A woman aged in her 70s has died in a unit fire in east brisbane overnight. The cause of the fatal fire has not yet been determined.
Fire has engulfed a boarding house and an adjoining property in south brisbane sending smoke billowing across the city. Fire crews are battling a blaze that s engulfed a boarding house and spread to a commercial building at south brisbane. Eight units in the boarding house were destroyed. The fire started in the vulture street boarding house about 6am and spread to a neighbouring commercial property.
Crews have now extinguished the fire which broke out just after 6am today and then spread to a neighbouring home and business on vulture street in south brisbane. Two buildings on fire on vulture street at west end. One firefighter has been taken to hospital with a knee injury but police say all residents of the south brisbane boarding house have been accounted for. Massive fire breaks out in south brisbane today show inner brisbane has been covered in smoke after a large unit fire on vulture street.
About 36 firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze which has gutted the two storey property in vulture street. Police said they may have pinpointed where the fire started but do not know the cause at this stage.