LOGAN City Council will meet this week with Queensland Rockety Society (QRS) in a bid to ascertain circumstances surrounding a grass fire at the club's public launch day on Sunday.
A council spokeswoman said the outcome of the discussions would dictate if a formal review of an agreement giving the society permission to launch on council-owned land at Cedar Grove was needed.
She said council was concerned for the well-being of residents and livestock after Sunday's fire, but did not want to jump to any conclusions before speaking with QRS.
The usual excitement of a QRS public launch day was shattered about 10.45am on Sunday as sparks from a rocket ignited dry grass.
Organisers were quick to act, using fire extinquishers on hand to fight the blaze.
Spectators also got involved, using wet towels in a bid to contain the fire.
However, a combination of easterly winds of between 16 and 20 kilometres per hour and dry grass caused the blaze to spread.
As the fire raged, nearby properties owners also helped out, spraying water from a tractor to stop the blaze spreading to their properties.
Urban and rural fire brigades, police and ambulance crews responded and the fire was eventually contained, with no injuries and no damage to any nearby buildings.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Superintendent Jeff King said he received the call at 10.58am and crews rushed to to scene to protect houses and sheds in the fire's path.
"We had seven appliances, fire both urban and rural and the command vehicle plus police and ambos, there were 22 emergency personnel," he said.
"We had urban appliances protecting houses and structures south to south west of the fire.
"Rural crews were working on the flanks of the fire to pull up the forward spread of it."
The QRS has an agreement with council to use the land until June 30, 2014. About 12 hectares of land was burnt.
