‘Malicious’ St Mary’s fire investigated

An investigation is under way into a “malicious” fire in Dundee.

Emergency services rushed to a flat in the St Mary’s area around 5.20am on Wednesday.

Police and firefighters attended the top-floor flat in St Nicholas Place after reports of smoke in the building.

Fire Scotland confirmed the fire was in the living room of a top-floor flat.

Two units from the Macalpine Road station attended and crew members wearing breathing apparatus used a jet to extinguish the blaze.

The flat was empty and the fire had been put out by 5.55am.

Neighbours were alerted by the smoke detector.

The property suffered fire damage and some residents were removed as a precaution but no one was hurt.

A spokesman for Fire Scotland said investigators had been called in from Aberdeen.

He said: “We are working with police. There may be criminal action as a result of the investigation.”

Police in Dundee confirmed the fire was being treated as suspicious.

In a separate incident in the area, firefighters were called out to a fire in a kitchen in St Columba Gardens.

Crew members got the call just after 6.40pm and used breathing apparatus and CO2 to extinguish the pot of meat which had caught fire.