Two businesses destroyed by fire within minutes of each other in Toowoomba ... - The Australian

FIRE crews were kept busy in Toowoomba overnight with two businesses engulfed in fire just minutes apart.

The first fire broke out in a business on Herries St in Toowoomba City with fire fighters receiving the call at 1.23am.

Just seven minutes later a two-storey brick business on Stenner St at Middle Ridge, just 4kms away, was also burning down.

Fire crews had to fight the first fire by breaking through the roof of the building while the bottom level of the brick building was engulfed in flames.

Fire fighters contained both fires and they were extinguished by 5am.

In a separate incident, a high school in Mouth Isa was destroyed by a suspicious fire last night.

The library at the senior campus of Spinifex College on Abel Smith Parade was already engulfed in flames when police were called about 10pm.

Police have yet to determine the cause of the fire and it is being treated as suspicious.