One of the classrooms on fire this morning at Kaiapoi North School. Photo / Kaiapoi Fire Brigade
A Canterbury school is closed today after a "suspicious" fire in the early hours of this morning destroyed two classrooms and cut off electricity.
Fire and Emergency spokeswoman Lyn Crosson said multiple 111 calls came in about 1.45am about a fire at Kaiapoi North School.
When the first two crews
arrived they found the buildings "well alight". Two further crews were requested.
The fire had been extinguished but crews remained on the scene dampening down hotspots.
Crosson said the cause of the fire was not clear but it "seems suspicious".
