BY IAN CROUCH
Police are treating a fire which destroyed a unit in Newcastle East on Tuesday night as suspicious.
14 Firefighters from three stations were called to the Department of Housing complex on Nobbys Road just before 8.00pm to find an unoccupied sub-ground unit on fire.
Around 20 residents were evacuated from the complex and no-one was injured.
It took crews about 20 minutes to get the fire under control and prevent from spreading to other units.
It's the same unit complex where a man tragically died in a unit fire in March this year.
