Guests evacuated after NSW motel fire

Guests had to be evacuated from a motel near Wollongong after a suspicious fire in one of the rooms.

Fire crews found several items on fire inside one of the motel units on the Princes Highway at Figtree on Tuesday night. No one was inside the room, but the motel was evacuated as a precaution, police say.

Damage was mostly limited to smoke stains after the fire failed to take hold.