Police say it's too early to know whether they're dealing with a serial arsonist following another bushfire in the Peregian region yesterday but have confirmed the last two fires are being treated as suspicious.
The cause of yesterday's blaze and a previous fire at Peregian in October are under investigationThe Sunshine Motorway from Emu Mountain Road and Murdering Creek Road to Peregian Springs remains closed
Hundreds of Peregian Springs, Lake Weyba and Weyba Downs residents were forced to evacuate around 3:00pm on Wednesday after a fire flared in bushland near Peregian Springs Drive — the third fire in as many months in the area. The cause of yesterday's blaze and a previous fire at Peregian in October are still under investigation.Maroochydore Acting Fire Inspector Geoff Hunter said police and fire investigators will return to the scene of the fire today to try to determine how it started.
"When we came it was in bushland here but fire investigators will follow that up and find the exact point of origin and they'll do that through research and first responding crews and first calls to triple zero," he said. Acting Superintendent Jon Lewis said it was too early to say whether they were dealing with a serial arsonist but both yesterday's fire and the October fire were being treated as suspicious.
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