THE POLICE investigation into a fire which ravaged a nursing home in Broughty Ferry on Wednesday has been concluded—with an electrical fault appearing to be the most likely cause.

Police yesterday carried out a last search of the Westbay home in Albert Road before a report on the incident is submitted to the procurator fiscal.

Thirty-three elderly residents had to be evacuated when a fire broke out in the roof space, causing extensive damage.

A police spokesman said, “A search is being made of the premises today, to make sure there’s nothing of value or anything that shouldn’t be there.

“You have to bear in mind that a number of the people living there would have been on drugs of different sorts.

“There will be a fire report submitted to the pro-curator fiscal, but it is not being treated as a suspicious fire.”

Police declined to speculate on the cause of the blaze, but an electrical fault is understood to have been at the heart of the investigation.

The fire and rescue service said that some invest-igation work had yet to be carried out, but the building was set to be handed over to the city engineer and the owners.

A spokesperson added, “All hot spots within the building have been found and dealt with.”

The fire broke out at around 7.40 pm on Wednesday, with the alarm being raised by members of a nearby bowling club who saw smoke rising from the roof.

The bowlers rushed to the aid of residents—many of them wheelchair-bound—and helped them into the garden of the building while fire crews arrived.

Around 40 firefighters from Dundee and Carnoustie were involved in tackling the ferocious blaze. Despite the damage, indications are that the building can be saved.

Contractors carried out work yesterday on the instruction of the city engineer to make the building safe, prior to it being handed over to the owners’ structural engineers.

Meanwhile efforts were continuing to find new accommodation for the residents, who were moved to care homes in Tayside and Fife in the aftermath of the fire.

A city council spokesman said, “We are continuing to work with the residents and their families to identify alternative accommodation for them. Two families have found accommodation for their relatives, and they will be moving into that accommodation as soon as they can.”