A blaze at a guest house in Southville is being treated as arson by the fire service.
Firefighters were called to a three-storey property on Coronation Road at 4.43pm on Saturday (May 14). They arrived on the scene in four minutes and found a fire on the third floor, spreading into the roof.
In a statement this morning, Avon Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the fire has been determined to be "deliberate ignition". It's understood the first blaze broke out the first floor and then a second one started in the back garden around half an hour later.
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The fire service's full statement reads: "Crews from Temple, Bedminster, Kingswood, Avonmouth, Southmead, Weston and Portishead were called to reports of a fire in a property at 16:43.
"On arrival, crews found a three-storey building including a basement, with a fire on the second floor.
"With six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus, crews used one turntable ladder, a short length ceiling hook, drone, one 35mm ladder, two high pressure hose reels, one covering jet and three 45mm jets to extinguish the fire. A positive pressure ventilation fan was also used to clear smoke.
"Neighbouring properties were also checked as smoke had entered the shared roof space. The scene was inspected multiple times by fire investigation officers, as well as by a fire investigation dog.
"The incident was left in the hands of police colleagues, with further investigations being carried out. The cause of the incident was determined to have been deliberate ignition."
Dave Pike, area manager at Avon Fire and Rescue Service, said: "We're working closely with the police and everything else, so in the fact that there were two fires in close proximity, without me going down there and speaking to the fire investigator, they could have been in two completely different places in the building."
