Crews have contained a fire at a power station on southern Queensland’s Darling Downs.

WILLIAM Chalfe’s new house was made a home yesterday thanks to the kindness of selfless Toowoomba residents.

A house has been destroyed by fire near Toowoomba in southern Queensland.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fatal housefire west of Brisbane.

AN OAKEY family’s Christmas has turned to tragedy after the death of a woman in a house blaze yesterday.

A GRAFTON Street house in Warwick was engulfed by fire yesterday morning, reducing the for-sale home to little more than a charred husk.

Police say a fire that destroyed a former Warwick abattoir is not suspicious.

Fire bans have been extended across Queensland as fire crews work to extinguish a blaze at Hervey Bay in the south-east.

Four fire crews were called to a grassfire on the Wyreema-Cambooya Road at Cambooya yesterday.

JOHN “Blue Jay” Flynn was a shattered man yesterday as he looked at the mass of burnt timber that was his home of 24 years.

Eight people escaped a fire overnight that destroyed an historic hotel on southern Queensland’s Darling Downs.

Firefighters continue to monitor a fire off Weier Road at Plainland.

NINE crews of firefighters and two water bombing helicopters struggled to control a large grass fire at Plainland yesterday.

POLICE are searching for the culprits who set a stolen Holden Commodore alight at the weekend.

TRUCK driver Bill Canfield admitted he was a “very lucky boy” after he jumped out of his B-double truck minutes before it exploded on Taylor Street yesterday.

Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that destroyed part of a derelict building in Toowoomba on Saturday morning.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with setting fire to a Toowoomba business last night.

A YOUNG family have been left homeless and devastated after fire destroyed their Goondiwindi home yesterday.

A YOUNG family have been left homeless and devastated after fire destroyed their Goondiwindi home yesterday.

A NUMBER of waste oil drums caught on fire at the Charleville rubbish dump yesterday at 11.30am.