The fire is the most recent in a spate of blazes in the Gore district in the past few months, several of which are being treated as suspicious. About 30 Gore and Mataura volunteer firefighters battled the fire in a vacant Clyde St house early on Saturday morning. Smalls previously said he thought that fire was started by a faulty heat pump, but on Monday he said he could not conclusively rule out that it was not suspicious either. ”I’m keeping an open mind. I’m quite confident that the fire this morning (at Pomona St) was suspicious and with Clyde St, not as much, but I can’t rule...