A man charged in relation to a blaze that destroyed a house in the South Canterbury township of Glenavy in May will appear in the Timaru District Court today.
The 35-year-old, who has name suppression, was arrested and charged with wilful damage after the May 24 fire that gutted a residential property at Riverside Village.
He was remanded in custody at an earlier appearance on June 18.
Crews from the Glenavy, Waimate, and St Andrews Volunteer Fire Brigades attended the fire off State Highway 1, about 23km north of Oamaru, about 4.20pm.
On the day, Glenavy brigade deputy chief fire officer Wayne Direen said the house was well ablaze when firefighters arrived.
It took about 90 minutes to bring the fire under control.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she rushed outside when she saw flashing lights from fire engines
and "...there was this big pile of fire, a lot of flames, that looked to be coming out of the roof".
Another neighbour described the inferno as "terrifying".
