An arsonist deliberately started fires in a number of wheelie bins in Nantwich town centre.
Police and fire crews are investigating several linked incidents which happened in the Pepper Street area of Nantwich yesterday (May 28).
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East residents are being urged not to dump batteries in household waste after a number of fires in bin lorries and at Ansa’s depot in Middlewich.
Ansa tweeted danger warnings before Christmas after several fires were sparked by “dead” batteries
Fire crews tackled two fires in bins within an hour of each other overnight, one inside the grounds of a Nantwich primary school.
It’s not confirmed whether the two incidents in early hours of Saturday are linked.
Fire officers are warning Cheshire residents not to light fires in their gardens during the coronavirus lock down.
Firefighters attended more than 30 intentionally lit fires in gardens across Cheshire in just seven days at the end of March.
Cheshire fire crews have battled two property fires in Audlem and Tarporley.
They were called to a property on a farm on Bagley Lane in Audlem where a fire had started above a fireplace.
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service has had zero deaths in accidental house fires in the last year 2018-19.
It’s the first time the service has achieved the milestone.
Fire crews have warned families in Crewe and Nantwich after 12 fires involving tumble dryers in just three months in Cheshire.
Two fires happened in one day in the latest incidents, one in Crewe and one in Ellesmere Port, on January 17-18.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of fires on a street in Nantwich.
The man was quizzed about the fires which took place on Birchin Lane over a 48-hour period earlier this week.
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