Vic: Fire at former psych hospital deliberately lit, police say

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: January 31, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
01-31-2005
Vic: Fire at former psych hospital deliberately lit, police say

By Jamie Duncan

MELBOURNE, Jan 31 AAP - Police believe a fire that damaged a historic administration
wing at a disused psychiatric hospital in Melbourne's north was deliberately lit.

The fire, which caused more than $300,000 damage, was the second at the former Larundel
Psychiatric Hospital in Bundoora, east of Melbourne, in three weeks.

Despite the building being well alight when firefighters arrived at at about 4am (AEDT)
this morning, crews were able to contain the blaze in 20 ...

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