A series of at least five suspected arsons in Hastings and Napier over the Christmas and New Year period continues to baffle police with still no arrests yesterday.
At least five fires are being investigated, including the destruction of separate homes in Napier and Hastings.
The two most serious were the torching of a vehicle in a carport between two flats in Durham Ave, Tamatea, gutting one unit and smoke-logging the second late on Christmas Day, and a house fire in Holmes Pl, Flaxmere, after a suspected burglary on the afternoon of January 2.
With no one home at the time of the two fires there were no injuries.
The occupant of the Tamatea flat, a short distance from the intersection roundabout of Durham and Westminster avenues, was understood to have been on his way home when the fire was reported at 10.49pm on Christmas Day.