A fire that completely destroyed two bedroom corrugated iron and wooden petitioned house this morning in Waila 3B, Davuilevu Housing is suspected to have started from a mattress which somehow caught fire.

The National Fire Authority also said that fire fighters took long to reach the fire scene due to traffic caused by vehicles who were rushing to see the fire. They add people were running towards the burning house and were blocking the fire trucks.

The Nausori Fire Station confirms that they received a call at around 8.57 this morning and by the time the fire fighters arrived at the scene the house was already engulfed in flames.

It is believed that four people were in the house including a child, a lady sustained some injuries while trying to put out the fire. They all managed to escape to safely.