Police and firefighters have joined forces to investigate a series of suspicious fires in Wanganui over the past few weeks.
Acting Wanganui Fire Service area commander Gary Ward confirmed yesterday a senior station officer and fire investigators were liaising with police to ascertain whether there was a pattern between suspiciousfires at the Castlecliff Domain last month, Hylton Park earlier this month and two fires on Saturday.
"All these fires are suspicious by nature and we have assigned a senior station officer and the fire investigation unit to liaise with police to see if there is a pattern. At the moment no links have been discovered," Mr Ward said.
At Queen's Birthday the gazebo at Castlecliff Domain was destroyed beyond repair in what firefighters described as a "mindless act", while on July 2 three fires were deliberately lit at Hylton Park, which hosts a public mountain biking track.
The latest suspicious blazes occurred on Saturday when firefighters were called to an incident at a woolstore at the industrial end of Liffiton St at a time when people were heading home from the Border/Ruapehu rugby final at Spriggens Park, and a second at 10.30pm in a storage building on the riverbank side of Putiki Drive.
