Read more Towering inferno as blaze rips through Hilton Hotel, Surfers Paradise A fireball caused by ignited debris falling from the roof at the Hilton Hotel Surfers Paradise It then caused a ...

More than 430 people have are evacuated from a Surfers Paradise hotel after part of the roof caught on fire.

Gold Coast residents have captured the moment a fire ripped through a Surfers Paradise hotel in the early hours of Friday morning.

A “fiery explosion” at the Hilton Surfers Paradise hotel sparked a blaze that forced more than 100 guests to stand by the roadside outside for at least an hour in the early hours of Friday.

The fire broke out in the western tower of the Hilton Hotel in Surfers Paradise in the early hours of Friday morning.

Emergency services were called to the Hilton Surfers Paradise Hotel along Surfers Paradise Boulevard at around 2am. A Fire Department spokeswoman said several crews were called after a fire ...