{"id":703817,"date":"2026-05-30T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703817\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:16:14","slug":"man-arrested-after-house-destroyed-by-fire-at-clontarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703817\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after house destroyed by fire at Clontarf"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in his 20s has been arrested after a suspicious fire destroyed a house and damaged two others north of Brisbane.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Acting Inspector Jason Higgs said police were en route to a domestic violence-related disturbance in Clontarf about 2pm when it was reported the house was on fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An emergency declaration has been made after a fire at Clontarf. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

About 34 firefighters attended the fire on Weaber Street and worked to contain the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Family and domestic violence support services:1800 Respect National Helpline<\/a>: 1800 737 732DV Connect Women’s Line<\/a>:\u00a01800 811 811MensLine<\/a>: 1300 789 978Kids Helpline<\/a>:\u00a01800 55 1800Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0(24-hour Crisis Line): 13 11 14<\/p>\n

Queensland Fire Department Superintendent Mark Halverson said the fire started in the centre house and “rapidly spread” to the two adjoining houses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The fire in the three houses that have been affected was severely intense, and they had to do a great job to stop the spread to further dwellings,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said firefighters had conducted a primary search of the two adjoining houses but were unable to access the centre house due to “structural damage”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Emergency services are at the scene of a house fire at Clontarf. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Earlier, Acting Inspector Higgs said police were “actively looking” for a man in his late 20s who was believed to be one of the occupants of the house where the blaze started.<\/p>\n

“We have a witness that has shown that he was running from the scene and that will form part of our investigation,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The house at Clontarf has been destroyed by fire. (ABC News: Stephen Cavenagh)<\/p>\n

He said it was believed the “regular occupants” of the house had left in a vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Acting Inspector Higgs said police had attended the house for a job earlier in the day before being called out again in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Superintendent Halverson said a firefighting crew would be present overnight to monitor a “smouldering fire” and ensure the safety of neighbours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier, an emergency declaration was made on account of the smoke caused by the blaze with residents urged to stay inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s has been arrested after a suspicious fire destroyed a house and damaged two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,342601,7770,44,94,701],"class_list":["post-703817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clontarf","tag-fire","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}