Sleeping grandmother escapes 'suspicious' sleepout blaze in TurangiCHRISTEL YARDLEY/FAIRFAX NZ Early morning fires in Turangi and Auckland are being treated as suspicious. The blaze ripped through the six-by-six metre shed on Taupahi Rd in Turangi early on Thursday. A grandmother sleeping inside the dual-garage flat woke to hear the fire taking hold, Turangi Fire Chief Tong Kingi said. A grandmother woke to find her sleepout being engulfed in a fire that authorities later deemed to be suspicious. Kingi said the fire was believed to have ignited at the rear of the property on the garage side of the sleepout.

Source: Stuff May 18, 2016 12:33 UTC