A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A FIRE started on the floor of a Housing New Zealand house in Kaiti on Saturday night but fortunately went out before it could take hold. The cause of the fire is being treated as suspicious.
Neighbours saw smoke inside the unoccupied house at the Pickering Street-Cavendish Crescent intersection atabout 7.30pm on Saturday night.
“The fire had gone out by the time we arrived but the interior was smoke- logged,” said Station Officer Jason Higgins.
“Something had been thrown through a window into a room and a fire had started on the floor.
“Neighbours saw smoke inside the house, heard smoke alarms going off and called 111.”
Firefighters made sure the small fire was out and ventilated the house. It was the seventh suspicious fire in a city house since early September and the second in less than two days.
Six of those fires have been declared to be arsons. A bedroom at a house in Endcliffe Road was burned out by fire on Friday morning and police have initiated an arson inquiry in relation to it.
Previous arsons have involved homes in Cobden Street, Clarence Street, Palmerston Road and Matthews Road.
