Firefighters have been kept busy with reported building fires around the state tonight, after a fire early this evening destroyed two vacant buildings at the Workshops Rail Museum at Ipswich.
In Woolloongabba, two crews were called to a blaze that broke out in a bedroom in a high-set home on Carl Street, about 10.40pm.
Fire crews had the fire under control by 11pm and all occupants of the home escaped without injury.
Earlier tonight, patrons were evacuated from fast food restaurant on Brisbane’s northside, after a fire broke out in a deep-fryer.
A spokeswoman for the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started at the restaurant on the corner of Gympie and Zillmere Roads, Aspley, about 8pm.
One crew was sent out but staff had extinguished the flames by the time firefighters arrived.
Meanwhile, on the central coast, firefighters were tonight called to a fibre production and packaging factory at Isis Central, near Childers, where a hopper with a conveyor belt had caught fire.
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The fire broke out in the factory on Kevin Livingston Drive about 7.35pm and was extinguished within half-an-hour.
No injuries were reported.