Qld: Suspicious fire damages three businesses

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2007
Qld: Suspicious fire damages three businesses

BRISBANE, April 3 AAP - A suspicious fire has damaged three businesses on the Gold Coast today.

Police said a witness noticed a man standing near the front window of the Dog Master
Training Centre in Palm Beach Avenue at Palm Beach about 2am (AEST).

The man departed and a few minutes later, the witness noticed flames inside the business.

He called the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service who attended and extinguished the
blaze, which damaged an office and caused smoke damage to two adjacent businesses.

Police said another local resident reported a car passing by the area a number of times
before stopping at the front of the business just before the blaze.

The car was described as a 1980s or 1990s model white sedan, possibly a Ford with one
working headlight and a grey rear bumper bar.

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