Police are treating two car fires in Dunedin - including one in a central car park building that caused a pall of acrid smoke to drift over the city this morning -as suspicious.
Senior Sergeant Brian Benn said the first fire, in Cumberland St near the Leviathan Hotel, was called in at 5.23am.
It caused minor damage to the front bumper of a Ford Focus.
The second was at the Wilson's Parking building in Moray Place, on the Octagon level of the building.
The fire service sent four appliances following a call at 6.32am.
A Mazda Capella was damaged in the incident.
Part of Moray Place was closed off while the fire service fought the fire and extracted smoke from the building.
Snr Sgt Benn said the CIB was investigating the fires.
He could not confirm the two were linked or whether they had been lit on purpose, but said: "we don't believe in spontaneous combustion''.
