A BLAZE which completely destroyed a shed at Pelican Point on Thursday evening has been deemed not suspicious, despite fire investigators being unable to determine a cause.
Emergency Services were called to a house on Racketts Road at around 9.30pm after reports of a shed fully involved with fire.
Five Country Fire Service (CFS) appliances from Allendale East, Kongorong, Blackfellows Caves and Port MacDonnell carrying 16 firefighters attended the blaze, which took around 30 minutes to extinguish.
Kingsley CFS group officer Grant Fensom said firefighters did a great job to contain the fire to the shed.
“The fire was fully involved when we arrived and there was no way we could save the shed, but we did a good job of stopping it from spreading to adjoining properties,” Mr Fensom said.
The blaze caused around $40,000 damage to the shed, but fortunately noone was injured as a result of the fire.
“There were no injuries and the owner was actually away at the time of the fire,” Mr Fensom said.
Fire cause investigators spent two to three hours investigating the scene of the blaze, however they were unable to determine a definitive cause.
“Our firefighters did a good job of not wetting down the scene too much as that assists the investigators to do their job, however unfortunately they weren’t able to determine anything concrete,” Mr Fensom said.
“It is not believed to be suspicious.”
Mr Fensom said it is important people remain vigilant at this time of year and clean-up their properties to avoid a similar incident.
“Just like bushfires can cause structure fires, the same can happen vice versa, particularly in rural areas,” Mr Fensom said.
“Like most years everything is starting to dry out and there is a pretty high fire danger, so we are on high alert at the CFS.”
