Update: Fire, Ormiston

Police have charged a man following investigations into a fire which destroyed a scout hall in Ormiston early yesterday morning.

Emergency services arrived on the scene at the intersection of Bainbridge and Gordon streets at around 3.20am to find the hall fully engulfed in fire.

The fire was extinguished but the hall was totally destroyed.

A 26-year-old Ormiston man has been charged with one count of arson and is due to appear in Cleveland Magistrates Court today.

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