A HOME and a shed were both destroyed in two separate fires in the region overnight.

The State Government will review the fire safety inspection process for backpacker hostels because of a high number of breaches.

The wet start to the new year could see an early end to the bushfire season in southern Queensland.

A website that tracks bushfires and weather conditions in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia has secured new funding.

A MAN was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation after he awoke to find his Kearneys Spring unit on fire this morning.

TEARS welled in William Chalfe’s eyes as he surveyed the burnt-out shell of his Jennifer Crescent family home this morning.

NEWTOWN residents were woken by a loud explosion after an arsonist torched a stolen car early yesterday morning.

Residents at Esk in the Brisbane Valley in south-east Queensland are preparing to test the new fire emergency warning system this weekend.

A FAMILY of five lost everything when their Westmar home burnt to the ground on Wednesday night, just 16 days before Christmas.

A severe fire danger is forecast for the Darling Downs and Granite Belt regions in Qld.

THE official closure ceremony of the 51-year-old Kitchener Street Fire Station was held today.

FIREFIGHTERS are still monitoring a large grass fire at Buaraba , north of Gatton, which has been burning for around two weeks.

More fire bans are now in place across Queensland as dangerous fire conditions persist.

Fire crews are battling to save two homes threatened by a grassfire in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane.

Queensland fire crews are battling several large grass fires in the Wide Bay and Lockyer Valley regions.

A 35-year-old man has been charged with arson after allegedly trying to set fire to a house at 91 Campbell Street yesterday.

A WANDOAN woman got the fright of her life yesterday when her car caught fire on the Warrego Highway.

The head of the Rural Fire Brigade in Qld says tension between crews can be overcome if urban firefighters show their rural colleagues more respect.

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

SEVERAL homes were threatened and a school was evacuated after a grass fire ran out of control at Pilton yesterday.