An e-scooter left charging in a loungeroom prompted the inferno in a New Farm unit final weekend that has left two folks in a essential situation, fireplace investigators have confirmed.
The condominium on Bowen Terrace, a block again from busy Brunswick Avenue, burst into flames about 9am on Saturday.
It’s at the least the second residential fireplace this 12 months attributable to an e-scooter battery, after a house on the nook of Orion and Sirius streets in Coorparoo was destroyed by a blaze in January.
A loud explosion alerted neighbours to the hearth in New Farm, together with Iain (final title withheld) who rushed to the brick unit block to seek out two males and two girls on a balcony desperately attempting to flee.
“Some man grabbed me a stool and I went up … a girl handed a canine to me and I helped her down,” Iain advised Brisbane Occasions on the scene.
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“After which one other man got here down, after which I stood up, and I couldn’t attain up as a result of the 2 folks had been badly burned.
“I couldn’t grip them, I couldn’t seize them as a result of their pores and skin got here off in my arms.”
Firefighters had been quickly on the scene, with Iain main them to the balcony with a ladder to climb up.