By Esther Lauaki
A fire at an unoccupied Islamic school is the latest in a spate of incidents at the Truganina site since the beginning of the year.
Fire crews attended Al Taqwa College’s Olive Branch campus on Hopkins Road last Wednesday just before 10am, finding a portable classroom ablaze.
Appliances from CFA brigades in Hoppers Crossing, Truganina, Caroline Springs, Point Cook and Werribee attended the fire.
The Olive Branch campus, on 40 hectares of private land, was used to offer a horticulture and agriculture curriculum to year seven to 10 students for practical lessons, but it has been vacant for a number of years.
A spokeswoman from Al Taqwa College told Star Weekly that the Olive Branch campus had been targeted by vandals and thieves in recent months.
She said CCTV cameras and horticulture equipment have been stolen since January.
“We’ve had buildings vandalised and everything that was stored there has been stolen,” she said.
The cause of the blaze is yet to be determined.
