General News
19 August, 2025
Emergency services investigate house fire
A Maryborough home has been destroyed after a fire broke out in the early hours of Friday morning.
Emergency services were called to the Park Road house at around 3.30 am after a fire began from within the home.
Two units from the Maryborough and Carisbrook fire brigades were on the scene until around 5 am with police present until around 11 am.
Maryborough Fire Brigade Captain Darryl Wagstaff said most of the roof collapsed not long after crews arrived.
“We got the call at around 3.28 in the morning and had two appliances from Maryborough arrive on scene. We then had back up from Carisbrook and Dunolly brigades,” he said.
“Just as we had the hose lined and sent in two fire fighters in breathing apparatus, the actual roof came down, so the fire had appeared to be burning for some time, but it was more in the back part of the house itself.
“When the other brigades came, we started progressively extinguishing the fire, but the house is totally destroyed. Two of the front rooms are smoke damaged, the rest is all flame damaged. The roof structure has all come down in the back part, what you can see is what roof is left.”
Both residents escaped and no one at the scene was injured.
Maryborough Fire Brigade, police, detectives and fire investigators also attended the site in the hours after to assess what may have caused the blaze.
While the fire is no longer under investigation, the cause of the fire has not yet been revealed.
Police are not treating the blaze as suspicious.