Police stumbled across a cannabis grow house in Ainslie on Tuesday morning after firefighters were called to a blaze at the property.
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Firefighters were called to the Hawdon Street property in Ainslie about 6.45am after a fire started in the front room on the fibro house.
Police arrived at the house about 7am and found 32 cannabis plants and hydropnic equipment inside a room.
The plants and hydroponic equipment was seized along with transformers, leads, irrigation and lighting.
ACT Policing North District Superintendent Brett Kidner said the hydroponic equipment was "highly likely to have been the cause" of the fire.
"This is the second illegal cultivation grow house detected in the area in the past few days," he said.
"We would encourage people to continue to report houses they believe may be used to cultivate cannabis."
ACT Fire and Rescue deployed three fire pumpers, a breathing support apparatus support van, and one fire commander to the fire.
No one was home at the time of the fire and no one in the area required medical treatment.
Police seized 23 cannabis plants from an Ainslie home on Friday night, after the owner of the home found suspicious items inside his rental property, and alerted police.
