A fire which caused severe damage to a common laundry of a Bar Beach unit block this morning is being treated as suspicious.
Firefighters from Cooks Hill and Merewether were called to Nickson Street just after 3 o'clock this morning to find the laundry area well alight.
They took about 45 minutes to extinguish and mop up the blaze.
They'd earlier been called to extinguish a rubbish fire at the same unit complex, and there are reports of a man seen acting suspiciously in the area at the time.
