Fire investigators have found a blaze that destroyed an abandoned building in New Norfolk on Monday morning was deliberately lit.
Emergency services were called to the vacant Millbrook Rise building at the rear of a Hobart Road property around 1:25am.
Tasmania Fire Service crews extinguished the blaze, but the building could not be saved.
Investigators have since determined the fire was deliberately lit.
Police said the building had been abandoned for several years.
Tasmania Fire Service fire investigator James Foster said the blaze caused significant damage.
“I would describe this building as a total loss,” he said.
Foster said the building was “fully involved right through the complex”.
Anyone with information about the fire or suspicious activity in the area around the time is asked to contact police and quote OR818618.
