UPDATE 5PM:
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THE CFA has reported only two chimneys remain of the four-bedroom weatherboard Joyce's Creek home.
Four tankers, two pumpers and two forward command vehicles from Bendigo, Carisbrook, Campbells Creek, Campbelltown, Maldon, Moolort and Newstead brigades worked to contain the blaze.
Bendigo’s protective equipment van is on its way to assist with refilling oxygen cylinders as well as another tanker.
Red Cross will be providing support to the family, who are well known to the local brigade and the community.
UPDATE 4.50PM:
A TEENAGER has been taken to a Bendigo hospital with burns to his hands and legs after a fire broke out in a house near Newstead on Monday afternoon.
Grant MacDonald from Newstead police said four youths were inside the house when several logs of wood rolled out of a fireplace.
He said the carpet and wooden floors quickly caught alight.
He said the 16-year-old boy tried to extinguish the fire but was unsuccessful.
He said the boy suffered superficial burns to his hands and legs.
Newstead Fire Brigade captain Craig Hepburn said the burns were "not serious but bad enough".
UPDATE 4.25PM:
A CFA spokesman said the house fire was not yet under control.
He said paramedics would transport a 16-year-old boy to hospital.
UPDATE 3.45PM:
A CFA media spokesman said the house was fully involved in the blaze.
He said police and paramedics had been called to assist.
He said Powercor had also been called to the fire.
The spokesman said he was unsure if anyone was home at the time of the fire.
EARLIER:
EMERGENCY services have been called to a house fire near Newstead.
The blaze broke out in Annand's Lane at Joyce Creek just after 3pm on Monday.
Eight CFA appliances are on scene.