Smoke billowing from the Kiwi Storage facility as firefighters struggle to control the blaze. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Police are treating a fire that destroyed possessions stored in a Wellington storage facility on Friday as suspicious.
The fire, one of the largest Wellington has seen for a long time, burned out the entire top floor of the Kiwi Self Storage unit in Kilbirnie.
It started about 12.45am on
Friday and reached a ``fifth alarm'' _ the most extreme end of the Fire Service's response scale.
Today, Detective Sergeant Peter Middlemiss of Wellington police said the blaze was being treated as suspicious.
He could not confirm if the fire started inside the building.
