Benjamin Rees had to scramble out the window as Parnell's City Garden Lodge burned.

By the comments made by the person being interviewed, it sounds like this was also a case of arson?

Rees said he was having a nap in his room on the second-storey on Sunday afternoon when he heard someone walk up the stairs and say, “set fire to the place”.

“All of a sudden, smoke came billowing over my door,” Rees said.