Fire At Taringa Students' House Eleven people have escaped a fire which engulfed two student houses in Brisbane's west. Police said the blaze started in a house where six students lived at about 11pm on Tuesday in Rokeby Terrace, Taringa. Everyone escaped unharmed but it quickly destroyed the two-storey home and jumped to the low-level timber house next door. Five people were in the second house and managed to get out without being hurt but the home was extensively damaged. One of the students who escaped the inferno said they had minutes to get out. ""I grabbed my phone, a pack of smokes and a lighter, my girlfriend grabbed her laptop and went back in and grabbed her fish,"" he told 612 ABC Brisbane. Another student, Jane Franken, said she was in shock. ""I've talked to the other guys in the house and they're pretty much the same, it's weird for me and [housemate] Tim because we saw it start and saw there was no way to control it,"" she said. "..."we're just realising how much we have lost."" The fire is being investigated but is believed to be non-suspicious.