A major fire overnight in the Waikato Hospital laundry is being treated as suspicious as Waikato District Health Board asks wards to conserve laundry.
It took firefighters from seven Hamilton fire trucks to bring the 3am fire at the laundry and services building on the hospital campus an hour-and-a-half to extinguish, Northern Communications Centre shift manager Daniel Nicholson said.
Three fire safety investigators remain at the scene this morning but Nicholson said early reports indicate the fire is suspicious.
One had been on site for six hours and another five-and-a-half trying to establish the cause.
No one was in the building and there were no injuries but Nicholson said the rear of the building on Hague Rd at the edge of the campus was damaged.