Two houses have been badly damaged by fire in different parts of the upper North Island overnight.
Police were treating one of the fires, at a house in Titoki west of Whangarei, as suspicious.
Firefighters arrived to find the house burning fiercely shortly after midnight.
Fire Service spokesman Jaron Philips
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