A GIRL has been remembered for her cheerful smile and her babysitter as a loveable person after they died in a townhouse fire at Thorneside.
Raven Contini, 8, and her 31-year-old babysitter Stephanie Ryan were found dead in the home after a blaze ripped through it on Sunday morning.
Child protection officers and the homicide squad are investigating what caused the fire, with suspicious circumstances not yet ruled out.
Tributes of flowers, cards and toys have been left outside the Thorneside estate, with one message dedicated to Raven saying: “Fly high beautiful girl”.
The girl’s school remembered her as a precious gift to the community.
“Staff and students adored her cheerfulness, friendly smiling face and imagination,” Birkdale South State School principal Amanda Turnbull said in a statement.
“Raven’s love for bright ribbons will forever set her apart and remind us each day of the precious gift she was to our school community.”
The girl’s parents were interstate at the time of the blaze and have since been informed of the tragedy.
“They are obviously devastated,” Detective Inspector Paul Dalton said.
Ms Ryan’s family members have also laid flowers at the makeshift memorial outside the residence.
Ms Ryan’s grandmother Thelma Cowell told reporters the 31-year-old was from the Northern Territory and had only been in Queensland on holiday for three days.
Asked to describe Ms Ryan, she said: “A loveable child.”
Ms Ryan was initially declared unaccounted for after police could not get full access to the home as about 30 firefighters worked to extinguish flames so intense they caused part of the roof to collapse.
Ms Ryan’s body was later found inside, with relatives of both victims organising fundraisers.
“Stephy will always be remembered as a smiley happy young woman always there for anyone that needed her without question with great love for her family and friends,” Ms Ryan’s aunt Karen Linsley posted on GoFundMe.
A family friend was living in the garage at the time but had left briefly to go to the shops, coming home to find the townhouse alight.
The man had been “very co-operative” with police, Det Insp Dalton said.
He said there was nothing to suggest the fire was suspicious, but police would consider all possibilities until determining otherwise.
