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String of fires started by youths using stolen fence panels and wheelie bins

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Fences panels and wheelie bins are being stolen by youths to start a string of woodland fires during lockdown. As many as eight fires have been started in the same area of woodland in Farnworth, just off Highfield Road, say firefighters.

Youths gather in the woods in the early hours of the morning and burn 'whatever they can get hold of', says crew manager Mark Hoare.

Mr Hoare said: "We have been called there numerous times - I have been down there three times myself. "There's fires every night there.

We can see seven or eight different spots within 50 yards of each other where fires have been started. "It is always groups of youths - I am talking teenagers, maybe around 13 or 14-year-old.

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