Woman fights for life after campfire set her clothes alight

A woman whose clothes were set alight by a campfire in Brisbane’s south-east is fighting for life in hospital.

The woman, aged in her 40s, was by a fire on Daymar Street in Burbank on Sunday night when her clothes caught on fire about 7.30pm.

She suffered significant burns and was taken in a potentially life-threatening condition to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where she remained overnight.

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