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Subscriber only Four people have been charged with unlawfully lighting fires on K Gari (Fraser Island) following a joint investigation involving Queensland Police and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS). Police alleged on October 14, QPWS rangers on K Gari were alerted to an illegal campfire within the Duling Camp Zone of Eastern Beach, north of Orange Creek. A Queensland Police Service spokesperson said rangers attended and located a campfire that was covered in sand though still radiating heat. Native vegetation in close proximity had caught alight and started a wildfire to the north west of the camp site, the spokesperson said.
Around 3am emergency services were called to the property where a small dwelling attached to a Queenslander home was on fire.
Crews were able to extinguish the blaze within 15 minutes of arrival, before it spread to the main home. Fire crews were quick to extinguish flames that engulfed a dwelling attached to a Landsborough house, before it caused more damage to the home. Picture: Patrick Woods
Earlier 8.45am:
A crime scene has been declared after a fire caused significant damage to a rural Coast property early Monday morning.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, police and ambulance services were called to the Tytherleigh Ave property at Landsborough at 3am.
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Subscriber only HE STOLE $2000 from his employer, leaving his fingerprints behind, which would ultimately lead to his arrest. But a court has heard how a series of terrible events led to the offending. The 22-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to one count of stealing by clerks and servants when he appeared before Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Friday. The court heard the man was an assistant nurse at a Fraser Coast nursing home when he stole the money from a safe. A forensic examination of the scene led to the discovery of the man s fingerprints.
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Subscriber only A TEENAGER who was arrested for allegedly twerking at McDonald s has been mentioned in Dalby Magistrates Court on charges of assaulting and obstructing police. Layla Cheyne North, 18, sent a letter in her absence on December 15, instructing she would plead guilty to seven charges which included public nuisance, wilful damage, and assaulting police. North is alleged to have committed the public nuisance charge at the Dalby McDonald s about 12.30am on November 20, when police were called in relation to a disturbance. Police will allege officers were called to the fast-food establishment when the 18-year-old wouldn t stop twerking, performing handstands, and stumbling.
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UPDATE: A man will face Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Saturday morning, facing charges after allegedly stealing a Woolworths delivery truck. The truck was allegedly involved in a collision with a police vehicle. The 29-year-old man is charged with two counts of attempted robbery, two counts of dangerous operation of a vehicle, one count of unlawful use of a vehicle, one count of attempted unlawful use of a vehicle, driving unlicensed, evasion and possessing dangerous drugs.
EARLIER: A Woolworths truck, allegedly stolen from a Hervey Bay driveway has collided with a police car. A spokeswoman from the Queensland Police Service said the truck was stolen from an address in Urraween when a delivery driver, who was about to start work turned it on to warm up the motor.