A woman in Dannevirke was upset after a car outside her property caught fire. This incident happened a night after another family on the same street saw their ute burn when masked men threw a “firebomb” into the vehicle.
The witness to the second car fire on Tennyson Street on Sunday said she was woken by her husband, who had heard boy racer activity half an hour before the car was seen ablaze.
She felt boy racers may have been to blame, as they made it as far as her property with no back tires and stopped trying to go. The witness’s daughter was scared and hid under bed covers when she saw the fire being put out.
Security footage showing the vehicle’s occupants running away had been provided to the police, but she had not seen it herself. The witness was unaware of a previous car fire on Saturday, June 15, where a ute parked on the street was thought to have been set alight, with the owner of the car saying her daughter saw masked men throwing a firebomb through it.
Both fires are being treated as suspicious but are not believed to be connected. Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirmed that firefighters attended both incidents on the same street a day apart.
