Farmer escapes house inferno
Fire engulfs a Toowoomba farm house Tuesday night, with smoke alarms waking the home owner who was sleeping in the lounge room. Nine News
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A decision to replace smoke alarm batteries on April Fool’s Day might have saved a man’s life, after his home west of Toowoomba was destroyed in an inferno on Tuesday night.
Firefighters could do nothing to save the timber home at Biddeston, which was well alight when crews arrived shortly after 9pm.
The man was the only occupant of the farmhouse on Toowoomba Cecil Plains Road and managed to escape without injury.
New batteries in a fire alarm might have saved a man's life in Toowoomba.
Nine News reported that the man was asleep in his loungeroom and had only replaced the smoke alarm batteries on Tuesday.
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Shane Browne from the Queensland Fire Service said the heat was “intense”.
“We had to be careful, especially with the wind, the overhead powerlines which were coming across the driveway and obviously the power was still on until Ergon isolated the power to the premises,” he said.
New batteries in a fire alarm might have saved a man's life in Toowoomba.
“Nothing salvageable unfortunately but it’s good that the home owners got out and no one was injured.’’
A fire investigator is expected to examine the property on Wednesday, a Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said.
“We tend to investigate almost every fire so it doesn’t mean it’s suspicious,” she said.
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