Firefighter loses $290K compensation case over Logan house fire that killed 11

Mr Giles said he was on scene and working as a pump operator for eight hours and 49 minutes but claimed he did not receive adequate welfare checks from superiors during or after the blaze.

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There was a large crowd of people very close to him, many of them Samoans, and “he could clearly hear wailing, crying and other sounds of obvious distress and anguish” throughout this time.

Mr Giles said he was distressed by the fact that he could not save those inside.

He also said he was told “a person had escaped from the fire by jumping from a window, but other family members had not followed”, and “one fire officer had looked in through a window and seen ‘arms and legs’ everywhere”.

Judge Reid said he did not question whether Mr Giles had…