Suspicious blazes strike Invercargill

Invercargill, New Zealand police are investigating four suspicious blazes, including a home targeted as a family slept inside, after a rash of call-outs stretched city fire crews yesterday.

Between midnight and 7pm firefighters received 11 call-outs to six structure fires, including the four being investigated, one callback to the scene of an earlier fire, one car crash and three false alarms.

The question of whether a firebug was responsible for the suspicious blazes was something police and Fire Safety investigators would not be drawn on last night.

Detective Fred Shandley, of Invercargill CIB, said joint investigations were continuing on whether the fires were connected.

Firefighters were called to the first fire in a hayshed on Severn St about midnight.

The shed was destroyed by the blaze, Mr Shandley said.

The second fire about 3.30am destroyed a storage shed on Bluff Rd.

A home in Bain St was the third property hit after wood against an exterior wall was set alight.

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