POLICE are today investigating the cause of a fire which broke out in Ipswich.Two fire crews were called to the blaze in the first-floor flat in Woodbridge Road at 10.
POLICE are today investigating the cause of a fire which broke out in Ipswich.
Two fire crews were called to the blaze in the first-floor flat in Woodbridge Road at 10.23pm.
The fire service was alerted to the fire by a call from a member of the public but when the crews arrived they found that was no one in the flat.
The fire took 30 minutes to extinguish.
Police were called at 11pm and officers are now treating the cause of the fire as suspicious.
A second fire broke out in a sheltered accommodation flat in Blackhorse Lane in Ipswich just after 1.20am today and took 40 minutes to fully extinguish.
The fire service was alerted by an automatic fire alarm and when they arrived they found a small fire had taken hold. No one was in the flat at the time and the cause is not thought to be suspicious.
Fire crews were also called to a property in Church Road, Great Barton, where a barn had caught fire on Sunday night.
The fire took hold in the barn again at about 8am today. It was extinguished just after 8.20am.
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