00:01It's the second gym to be targeted in two days and not only that, it's a gym by the
00:07same name.
00:09Genesis Health and Fitness was targeted two days ago in a different suburb in Taylors
00:13Lakes and police have said that was targeted and now today, two days later, a gym by the
00:21same name appears to have been targeted.
00:24Just over my shoulder, you can see behind me, it's on the level above, on level one of
00:31this business complex, but there's also a Brazilian jiu-jitsu which is underneath on the ground
00:39level which has also been completely damaged, heavily gutted by fire.
00:46So police are saying that this happened around half past 12 last night.
00:51Fire crews arrived and it took them about an hour to get the blaze under control.
00:56No one's been arrested.
00:57Police say offenders fled the scene, but they are treating it as a targeted arson attack.
01:04Now, people have been coming and going.
01:07This is a busy business park in Melbourne's inner west.
01:11There's a childcare.
01:12There's other dance schools, swim school.
01:15The Genesis gym also brings a lot of traffic here and people have been turned away all
01:21morning as they've realised that there's a police cordon around and they can't get in
01:26because power to the entire complex is out.
01:30And it's really disappointing for the family-owned business, the jiu-jitsu.
01:34And this is what one of the jiu-jitsu students, Boris, had to say to us earlier.
01:39So I had a look and there is significant damage, but it's the certificates, it's the trophies,
01:48the medals, it's the things that can't be replaced.
01:51It's also really affecting families whose children go to Guardian Child Care Centre here in Maidstone.
01:58Also very disruptive.
02:00A lot of little young children under five being turned away this morning as they've arrived.
02:07This is what one of the workers from the child care said to us.
02:11How many families do you think this is impacting?
02:14Today, about 110.
02:16But yeah, maybe more, yeah, who rely on us to, you know, for the kids to go to work.
02:21So it's going to be a bit hard for them to find somewhere for the kids to stay today.
02:24So just a lot of disruption this morning, a lot of disappointment.
02:29And police say they're still investigating.
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