Two suspicious fires in same week at same house

An old and abandoned villa in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden has been badly damaged by fire for the second time in two weeks

The two-storey property was well alight when eight fire crews arrived on the scene at 2.40am today, Fire service shift manager Jaron Phillips said.

Two fire crews and a fire safety officer were still at the scene late this morning.

Firefighters were called to deal with a fire in the same house in the early hours of January 17.

A fire spokesman said that investigations were continuing into the cause of the two fires which were being treated as suspicious.

- NZPA