Investigations into the “suspicious” Mount Gambier blaze began after the vehicle was destroyed and a home sustained surface damage. Emergency services were called to the Sandalwood Crescent address just before 10pm on Tuesday night following reports of a car fire with flames that started to spread to the building.No one was home at the time. SA Police said the attack appeared to be targeted. Police Commissioner Grant Stevens told reporters on Wednesday that he understood the car belonged to the woman in her 40s who tested positive to Covid-19 after returning from Victoria.“People couldn’t assume that they know what’s going on,” he said.“It’s completely unnecessary, it’s unwarranted. They have committed a serious crime and if we do detect them then we will be dealing with them appropriately.“I’m just asking people to show tolerance. We don’t know exactly what’s gone on. Let us get to the bottom of this and we’ll provide that information to the community as quickly as possible.”After testing positive, the woman was flown to the Royal Adelaide Hospital with serious respiratory symptoms but was later moved to the state’s dedicated Covid-19 positive hotel, Tom’s Court. Her four children are also isolating at the medi-hotel. The woman returned home to Mount Gambier from Victoria last Friday and told border patrols she visited family in Casterton, which is located within the 70km border bubble that was imposed at the time.Contact tracers are working to determine if she travelled to Melbourne and contracted the virus there. The positive case led to several exposure sites being listed and the border bubble — allowing cross-border residents to travel within the allocated radius on both sides of the SA-Victorian border — to shrink to 30km.It also plunged Mount Gambier City, the District Council of Grant and Wattle Range Council area into at least seven days of strict restrictions. Anyone with information about the incident or who saw or heard any suspicious activity in the street is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a report online.
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