His parents and four-year-old brother managed to escape as neighbours heard ‘deafening screams’ while the home was engulfed in flames.
The boy is understood to be named Max and a family member was seen collapsing to the ground in grief and shouting, ‘Maxie, Maxie my boy’.
Firefighters battled the blaze for 45 minutes before extinguishing the flames and discovering the little boy’s body in a bedroom.
A six-year-old boy has died after a fire ripped through a home in Brisbane ‘s north
A six-year-old boy has died after a fire ripped through a home in Brisbane ‘s north
The boy was just two weeks from celebrating his seventh birthday before he was killed in the blaze at the Barlow Street home in Clayfield at 4am on Monday
The boy was just two weeks from celebrating his seventh birthday before he was killed in the blaze at the Barlow Street home in Clayfield at 4am on Monday
‘The crews did the best they could when they arrived, and we had 26 firefighters here who worked tirelessly to get it under control,’ Superintendent Paul Durston said.
‘The fire developed and gets very hot internally and then the windows fail and all the air comes in and the fire starts to enrage quite quickly.’
Superintendent Durston said fire crews were ‘distraught’.
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