Source: Radio New Zealand
RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
Fire and Emergency (FENZ) says it had to deal with three suspicious fires overnight in Dunedin.
At 11:30pm on Monday, four crews were called to a vacant commercial building on Harrow street in central Dunedin.
About an hour later at 12:23am, emergency services were called to a fire at an unoccupied residential property, also in central Dunedin.
A FENZ spokesperson said that blaze reached second-alarm status and saw half a dozen appliances deployed.
Following that, at about 1:20am, FENZ was alerted to a series of trees on fire outside the Otago Pistol Club.
It was understood on arrival the flames were about 20 metres high, with five trucks, two tankers and two rural crews sent to extinguish the blaze.
FENZ said investigators would be looking into the fires.
No persons were reported harmed.
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