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Friday, July 4, 2025

Bush fire destroys Carib warehouse and damages Mt Lambert Community Centre

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A ware­house and of­fice owned by Carib Brew­ery was de­stroyed by bush fire in Mt Lam­bert this af­ter­noon.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the fire be­gan short­ly af­ter mid­day on a strip of dry grass be­tween the build­ing and the East­ern Main Road.

It quick­ly spread to wood­en pal­lets and plas­tic bot­tle cas­es be­ing stored on the com­pound and then un­to the build­ing it­self.

Fire of­fi­cers and ten­ders from sev­er­al fire sta­tions be­tween Mor­vant and Tu­na­puna re­spond­ed to the scene but were un­able to save the build­ing from the fire that was be­ing fu­eled by the con­tents of the ware­house. Staff of the build­ing were im­me­di­ate­ly evac­u­at­ed and stood in a ad­ja­cent emp­ty lot of land as the fire of­fi­cers bat­tled with the in­fer­no.

They even­tu­al­ly ex­tin­guished the fire af­ter the roof of the two sto­ry build­ing caved in. The man­aged to stop the fire from spread­ing to the Mt Lam­bert Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre lo­cat­ed next door.

Fire in­ves­ti­ga­tors are still at­tempt­ing to eval­u­ate the cause of the fire but be­lieve that it may have been start­ed by a dis­card­ed cig­a­rette butt.


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