Sleep out fire in Rotorua being treated as suspicious by police

Police are at the scene of a fire which burned down a sleep out on Dixon Rd. Photo / Andrew Warner

Police are treating a Rotorua fire shed fire overnight as suspicious.

Fire crews spent about an hour extinguishing the blaze on Dixon Rd. A Fire and Emergency NZ spokeswoman said the fire was reported about 2.30am.

Two Rotorua crews attended and by 3.40am the fire was out and they were dampening hot spots, she said.

A police spokeswoman said a fire was reported in a stand-alone sleep-out, away from the main dwelling, at a residential address on Dixon Rd.

"A scene guard was there overnight and a fire investigator has been advised. Everyone has been accounted for," she said.

"[The fire] is being treated as suspicious."

A sleep out in Rotorua burned down overnight. Photo / Andrew Warner