Police are appealing for help from the public following a suspicious house fire in Wallsend.
Officers were called to Derwent Gardens in Wallsend at 3.15am on Thursday, August 11 and found the ground floor flat on fire. The officer, forced entry to an upstairs flat to help a woman resident to safety, she was uninjured and the ground floor flat was empty.
The fire service attended and extinguished the fire which is being treated as suspicious. The cause of the fire is still being established.
Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who was in the area at the time and who may have seen or heard anything suspicious to get in contact.