Kelvin Grove Fire

The Kelvin Grove fire was a minor conflagration that occurred on the morning of June 6, 2011. The inferno involved one of the major residential buildings in the Kelvin Grove Urban Village area.
Incident
Despite the fire restrictive nature of residential high-rises such as the one located at Kelvin Grove: The material comprising the structure is either inherently able to withstand significant exposure to fire (concrete), or in which a fire resistive covering is applied to steel structural members. No conclusive evidence has been found to suggest how the fire begun, however forensics explained that one of the most probable reason for the fire was the result of an initial small explosion in a fourth story apartment. Forensics have also hypothesized numerous reasons for the explosion - the most alarming but evidently plausible theory, details that the explosion was a result of an extinguished pilot light in the apartment’s kitchen stove top. As a result, the stove top would in effect have begun letting out diminutive amounts of gas, which could have slowly filled the apartment over subsequent days. Finally, the detonation occurred as a result of the refrigerator’s compressor - which was in close proximity to the stove top - triggering a spark large enough to combust the gas.
This theory seems to corroborate with the alarming pace at which the fire spread. By the time the fire had been extinguished - noon on the same day - the fire had spread from the initial apartment and had breached all surrounding rooms on the same floor.
Casualty
There was one casualty reported on the day; the individual was a twenty-year-old, female by the name of Jayce Burke. Jayce was an occupant of one of the apartments in close proximity to where the initial explosion occurred. Witnesses claim they spotted the individual exiting and re-entering the building with occupants who had been overcome with fumes of the fire. Jayce had been living in her apartment for nearly six months. Attempts to find any immediate family members were unsuccessful, as a result the local University held a public funeral for the heroics of Jayce on the day of the Kelvin Grove Fire. It was later discovered that Jayce’s parents had been deceased for several years and there still remains much obscurity on her personal information and social companions.
The building where the fire occurred has since been demolished, as costs for reparations were projected to be too expensive for the owners to continue management of the residential block. The building was located opposite the Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industry precinct building Z2, The Loft. Since the fire, no development has begun on the land, but people still commemorate the life that was lost on the day by presenting tributes on the vacant building site.

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