A fire which damaged a house at Muswellbrook overnight is being treated as suspicious.
Firefighters from Muswellbrook, Aberdeen and Denman were called to the single storey home on Dangar Place just after 8.30pm on Sunday to find smoke issuing from a front bedroom.
They took about 40 minutes to extinguish and mop up the blaze which was confined to the bedroom
No-one was home at the time.
Newcastle Fire Command says an accelerant had been used and a bar heater was alight when they arrived.
