It just took less than an hour for a north side furniture factory to be all but shattered in a fire yesterday. 

Furnir Australia’s

factory at Geebung went up in flames only after 9am, sending smoke swelling over the neighborhood. It took attending fire crews 45 minutes to manage the blaze. 

Michael McDermaid, who worked in a business 200m left, said he was attentive to the emergency when a colleague heard a “loud popping” noise. 

Armed with a camera, he just ran to the scene to witness the factory’s destruction.