A juvenile has been charged with setting set fire to a residence at Jiggi, reported earlier today by the Lismore App.

Nobody was injured in the blaze but police, the Rural Fire Service and NSW Fire and Rescue were unable to save the building.

Nimbin police this evening charged the juvenile with Malicious Damage by Fire and Breach Bail.

The juvenile has been refused bail and will appear at Lismore Children's Court tomorrow.

Lismore Fire Station Commander Fraser Hindry said two fire trucks from Lismore Fire Station arrived first on the scene at the Jiggi Road property. 

Five more fire trucks from the Rural Fire Service then arrived on the scene and 15 firefighters contained the blaze.

“We arrived at about 10.30am and there was lots of black smoke,” Commander Hindry said. “The fire had spread through the roof into both units and was brought under control.

 “Our first priority was checking the occupants were out, but the evacuation had already been done by the tenants, so we carried out defensive fire fighting on the burning building to contain the fire.

“There was an initial problem with the water supply, due to their being no reticulated water on the street, so we used the water tank and the swimming pool out the back.”

Commander Hindry said the operation was carried out with full safety precautions for firefighters.

“Firefighter safety was paramount,” he said. “We put in an exclusion zone around the bricks and walls collapsing and isolated the electricity, by getting the power company to switch it off.”

RFS Northern Rivers Superintendent Boyd Townsend said crews arrived after an initial Triple Zero call at 10:45am to find the brick and tile residence on Jiggi Rd well alight.

"All persons are accounted for," Supt Townsend said.

"Two units from Fire and Rescue are on the scene with five RFS as well.

"There's an ambulance there just as a precautionary thing.

"The house is fully involved and they’re working to extinguish that which will probably take a couple of hours."