FIREFIGHTERS in Birchwood have warned that youths are endangering lives with nuisance arson attacks.

They say that two attacks which took place on Monday night - a shed at Ashmore Close and a car fire in Chaffinch Close - are the type of malicious fires that could cost lives if a more serious blaze was to take place elsewhere.

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