AN 80-YEAR-OLD house has been destroyed by fire.
CFA units from Pyramid Hill, Boort, Lodon Vale, Yarrawalla and Mitiamo were called to the blaze on Boort-Pyramid Hill Road, Durham Ox, last Wednesday afternoon.
Pyramid Hill captain Steve Mann said the house had been unoccupied for several years but was being tidied by new residents. “They were outside tidying the yard, looked around and saw flames,” he said.
Mr Mann said flames had fully engulfed the weatherboard house, believed to be 80 years old, when brigades arrived.
Fire had also spread to grass around the house.
However, Mr Mann said investigators had probed the fire and there were believed to be no suspicious circumstances.