A CRIME scene is in place after a house fire at Rushworth overnight.
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Emergency services were called to the Murchison-Whroo Road fire about 10.40pm on Thursday.
No one was home at the time.
A police spokesman said the rural property was totally destroyed in the blaze.
Fire investigators will return to the site on Friday to continue their examinations.
It is one of a number of house fires this week.
On Wednesday, a man was arrested following three suspicious fires in Bendigo that morning.
Country Fire Authority crews and police attended fires at a house in Inglis Street, West Bendigo, a fire at a block of units in King Street, Bendigo, and a fire underneath a house in Wills Street.
On Monday, firefighters managed to save most of a Kangaroo Flat family home after fire took hold that morning.
Firefighters believe a fire in a Kangaroo Flat could have been started with a child playing with a lighter. The blaze is not being treated as suspicious.
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