Fire service condemns 'mindless incidents' in plea to the public
MORE than 40 vehicles were torched deliberately across North Yorkshire in a year, fire service figures show.
Over the course of a decade, fire crews in the area were called out to over 600 deliberate vehicle fires - 48 of them took place during 2020.
Arsonists torching vehicles are putting lives at risk and taking up time and resources from already stretched services, according to the Fire Brigades Union and the National Fire Chiefs Council.
Since recording began in 1981, England’s fire and rescue services have attended more than a million deliberate vehicle fires, with nearly 8,500 incidents country-wide in 2020.