Fire, Atkinson Dam

Police are currently at the scene of a house fire on Lake Street at Atkinson Dam.

Preliminary inquiries indicate emergency services received reports of a fire at 4am, and when police arrived, the dwelling was engulfed by flames.

A crime scene has been declared with Scenes of Crime officers and fire investigators currently travelling from Brisbane.

At this stage, the house continues to smoulder and is too hot for police to conduct a full inspection of the premises in order to ascertain the cause.

As is normal protocol, the fire is being treated as suspicious until it is deemed otherwise.

Officers are running out lines of inquiry to determine the number of occupants living in the house, and whether anyone was home at the time.

There is no further information available at this stage.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting.

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