Police and fire crews investigate unit on fire at Westbury Road, Prospect Vale

Police allege that a fire at a property in Prospect Vale was deliberately lit.

In a statement, Tasmania Police said that the fire service had handed the scene over to Tasmania Police because it was deemed deliberately lit.

"No one was home at the time of the fire," the statement said.

Senior Station Officer Heath Bracey said that the structure "is completely destroyed and is likely to be demolished."

"When crews arrived, they found the structure fully involved and it took approximately 30 minutes to bring the fire under control," he said.

Neighbours were woken by a large bang. When they came out of their houses, the back of the property was "fully involved" in the fire, Station Officer Bracey said.

The fire service have used aerial appliances, thermal imagine and gas detection to determine the cause of the fire, he said.

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Fire crews from Launceston and Prospect responded to multiple triple zero calls to put out a unit on fire at Westbury Road, Prospect Vale.

A Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) spokesperson said that the fire was reported at around 5:30am on Saturday 29 April.

Crews arrived to find the unit fully alight and residents in the adjoining unit were evacuated.

Tasmania Police were also on the scene.

A TFS spokesperson said the blaze took around one hour to be extinguished.

No one is reported to have been injured, the TFS spokesperson said.

An investigation team was headed to the site on Saturday morning.

The cause and damage estimate is yet to be determined.

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