POLICE PROBING a fire at a warehouse in Dundee will keep searching the building over the weekend in a bid to establish how the huge blaze started. Scenes-of-crime officers and sniffer dogs yesterday scoured the disused Park Mill in Douglas Street, destroyed in a outbreak last Saturday.

The dogs were brought in to find out if anyone may have been in the building at the time of the fire.

Detective Sergeant Callum Leith last night said the search was a “slow process.”

“We will continue on site all weekend and possibly into Monday, which should see the conclusion of our inquiries,” he said. “The emergency search dogs were very much a precaution and a matter of routine. There’s no suggestion that anyone is in the building.

“We continue to search in relation to the fire and what might have started it.”

The fire began at 10pm last Saturday. Flames leapt more than 60 ft as the three-storey former mill works, known as Park Mill Business Centre, was engulfed.

Firefighters quickly on scene saw immediately there was no way of saving the building, which housed various small businesses including machinery, welding and building firms.

Due to the extensive damage, the city engineers deemed the building unsafe for an immediate search and forensic examination of the scene.

Demolition got under way on Wednesday with Tayside Police, Tayside Fire and Rescue and the city engineers working together at the scene.