A crime scene has been set up following an overnight fire at an Aberdare unit block.
Firefighters from 3 stations were called to the 3-unit block at the corner of Congewai and Kurri Streets at 10.30, finding one of the units engulfed in flames.
Crews had extinguished a fire in the same unit earlier in the afternoon.
An adjoining unit was also badly damaged, while a third sustained smoke damage in last night's fire.
4 people were evacuated without injury.
Meanwhile, fire has destroyed a 3-bedroom home at Paines Crossing, west of Cessnock.
3 Rural Fire Service crews were called to the weatherboard home on Settlers Road just before 3.30 this morning.
A female resident was treated by Paramedics at the scene for smoke inhalation.
RFS fire investigators are trying to determine the casue of the blaze.
