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<\/p>\nA man has been charged with arson as a domestic violence offence after a house was destroyed by fire north of Brisbane yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police will allege a 36-year-old man used accelerant to start a fire at a house on Weaber Street in Clontarf about 1:50pm before fleeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He was located a short time later by a police dog squad unit,” police said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The blaze destroyed the house and spread to two adjoining properties. No one was physically injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
It is the house of Ben Beaumont and Michelle Liddle, whose 15-year-old son, Angus Beaumont, was murdered in 2020.<\/p>\n
In a post on social media, the couple, who own a gardening business, thanked the community for their support.<\/p>\n
They said they would have to close their business for a week or two while they rebuild equipment and find a place to live.<\/p>\n
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It took 10 crews about two hours to control the blaze at Clontarf. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Queensland Fire Department Superintendent Mark Halverson said on Saturday it took 34 firefighters about two hours to control the flames.\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 “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 An emergency declaration was made due to the smoke, with nearby residents urged to evacuate.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking at the scene, Acting Inspector Jason Higgs said police were en route to an alleged domestic violence-related disturbance when it was reported the house was on fire.<\/p>\n A 36-year-old Dakabin man has been charged with one count of arson as a domestic violence offence and will appear in the Redcliffe Magistrates Court on Monday, June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with arson as a domestic violence offence after a house was destroyed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29621,64,63,342601,343149,40360,44,94,701],"class_list":["post-705275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clontarf","tag-domestic-violence-offence","tag-house-fire","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705275","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=705275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}