THE North Stradbroke Island community is again rallying around a local family after the island's fourth major fire in three years destroyed a Dunwich hairdressing salon early on Saturday.
The Junner Street Straddie Styles hairdresser's shop was gutted after fire broke out just after 12.30am.
Fire units from Dunwich and Point Lookout took about an hour to control the blaze in the one-storey brick building.
No one was injured but police cordoned off the site so the Police Forensic Unit and Queensland Fire Investigation team could delve into the cause, including the possibility it may have been deliberately lit.
Bayside CIB Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Austin called for witnesses to the fire and said police would have a better idea about how it started by Friday. He said a cash tin was yet to be found among the rubble.
North Stradbroke Island station officer William Ewing said nearby shops, including the butcher and bakery, were saved due to the quick work of the two fire teams.
The hairdressing salon is in the same shopping area as the island's Foodworks and newsagent and at the opposite end of the block to where a laundromat burned to the ground in October, the same month fire ripped through the Amity Point general store.
In July 2012, the nearby Dunwich Post Office was razed to the ground.
