House Fires

A person has died and four others have been rushed to hospital after a house fire north of Brisbane, with police declaring a crime scene.

A house in Thornton was destroyed by fire on November 13, 2025.

A Hunter Valley teenager said he was just in the right place at the right time when he helped a 92-year-old woman to safety as her home was engulfed in flames.

Fire has killed at least one person and damaged 170 buildings in the city of Oita in Japan. 

One person missing and around 175 evacuated as fire engulfs residential buildings in Japanese city of Oita.

Aerial vision shows aftermath of fire in residential area of Oita, Japan.

Residential buildings burning in Japanese city of Oita.

Investigators are trying to piece together the cause of a blaze in central Queensland that has left a family devastated and residents in shock.

Queensland's Premier David Crisafulli says the community of Emerald will be in shock after this morning's fire.

A central Queensland community gathers to mourn a mum, her son and his best friend who died in a house fire. A woman has been charged with murder and arson.

A woman has been charged with murder and arson after a house fire that took the lives of a woman and two young children in Gladstone.

A fire that destroyed a house on the NSW far south coast is being treated as suspicious, after a man was fatally stabbed on the same street earlier in the month. 

Jordana Johnson, her son Jordan Norris and his friend Chazz Mather died in the blaze in Gladstone last week.

A woman and two boys died in a blaze on Wednesday. The house collapsed, hampering search efforts by emergency services. 

A witness at an inquest into the death of Alice Springs boy Mitchell Thomas has denied doctoring an electrical report in the wake of a fatal house fire.

Police are still investigating the cause of a fatal house fire in Gladstone this morning. 

A 78-year-old woman escapes a blaze on the NSW Mid North Coast, but the body of another woman — believed to be her daughter who lived with disability — is later found inside.

The death of a three-year-old boy in an Alice Springs house fire has led to an electrical audit of Northern Territory public housing, which uncovered widespread issues affecting hundreds of homes, an inquest has heard. 

Residents who lost their homes in a blaze that ripped through WA's southern wheatbelt in January may have to wait more than two years to seek compensation.

A man has died in a house fire that caused a structural collapse in East Lismore, NSW. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blaze.