How Queanbeyan firefighters desperately tried to save baby from burning unit

By Katie Burgess
Updated May 10 2016 - 1:13pm, first published 11:30am
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander, Jason Murphy whose crew attended the fatal fire on Monday.  Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander, Jason Murphy whose crew attended the fatal fire on Monday. Photo: Rohan Thomson
The unit towers in Queanbeyan where a one-year-old girl died. Photo: Elesa Kurtz
The unit towers in Queanbeyan where a one-year-old girl died. Photo: Elesa Kurtz
Queanbeyan Fire station leading firefighter Jason McPherson, station commander Jason Murphy and senior firefighter Steven Duff who attended the fatal fire on Monday.  Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire station leading firefighter Jason McPherson, station commander Jason Murphy and senior firefighter Steven Duff who attended the fatal fire on Monday. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station's Jason McPherson, Jason Murphy and senior firefighter Steven Duff in the station's break room. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station's Jason McPherson, Jason Murphy and senior firefighter Steven Duff in the station's break room. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander Jason Murphy is proud of his crew. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander Jason Murphy is proud of his crew. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander Jason Murphy is proud of his crew. Photo: Rohan Thomson
Queanbeyan Fire Station commander Jason Murphy is proud of his crew. Photo: Rohan Thomson

Visiting the red brick residence that is Queanbeyan's fire station, it's easy to see the men and women who inhabit it on rolling shifts are a little family.

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