Police have attempted to lift fingerprints from alarm boxes at an Auckland apartment building engulfed in fire on Sunday to try to establish who turned the system off.
The alarms were not working in the two-storey building on Commerce St from which four people were rescued, including two men who
climbed onto the roof to escape the blaze.
Detective Sergeant Scott Hunter said detectives had spent about seven hours at the scene along with Fire Service investigators to try and establish what happened.
"Crime officers were down fingerprinting the alarm boxes to see if we could actually identify or lift any fingerprints in regard to who may have turned the audible alarms off," he said.
The building's manager, Jonathan Kim, has previously said the alarm was checked monthly.
