Fire, Upper Mount Gravatt
An off-duty police officer has rescued a man from a burning house at Upper Mount Gravatt on Saturday evening.
Just after 5pm the officer was travelling to his place of work when he observed smoke coming from a two-storey house on Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road. The officer stopped and found the house to be on fire.
He then forced entry into the house by smashing a downstairs window and rescued a 21-year-old man from the fire.
The man was transported to hospital with smoke inhalation.
No other person was injured as a result of the fire and the lower storey of the house received extensive damage with the upper storey receiving significant smoke damage.
A 21-year-old man was issued with a notice to appear in relation to one charge each of arson and possessing dangerous drugs.
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