The National Fire Authority engaged Country Fire Authority based in Australia to investigate the incidents at Ba Town Council’s Central Arcade and Tappoos bulk house in Raiwai, Suva.

The increasing number of fires is a concern for the Local government Ministry with 15 incidents in August alone.

A partly constructed apartment in Waimalika, Nadi was destroyed by fire this afternoon.

A double-story house along Khalsa Road in Nasinu was fully destroyed in a fire yesterday afternoon.

The National Fire Authority attended to 243 incidents of bush, grass, sugarcane and rubbish fires in just a month.

The National Fire Authority is investigating four structural fire incidents that have occurred in the last 72 hours.

The Fiji Sugar Corporation is concerned with an increase in indiscriminate cane burning in the Labasa and Rarawai cane belt areas.

Seven people are homeless after a fire destroyed their four-bedroom houses in Lawaki settlement in Lautoka yesterday.

Two houses were destroyed in a fire in Lawaki settlement in Lautoka today.

Ten people have been left homeless after a fire destroyed a three-flat house at Pundit Maharaj Street, Vesivesi in Kinoya today.

A farm house belonging to a 39-year-old woman in Nadi was destroyed in a fire.

The National Fire Authority is currently at the scene of a house fire in Kinoya.