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Bins targeted by arsonists in St Stephen’s Road, Acomb

9:45am Monday 15th March 2010 in


POLICE have reassured residents that York is a safe place after arsonists started three blazes late at night in a residential part of the city.

A woman had to be taken to York Hospital as a precaution following the incident in the St Stephen’s Road area of Acomb just before 3am on Saturday.

Firefighters were originally called out to deal with a wheelie bin which had been set alight deliberately, but when they reached the area, they found two more bins on fire.

Sgt Lindsey Robson, of the York South police team, said although the incident was serious, such fires were “relatively rare occurrences in York” and the city continued to be one of the safest places in England in which to live.

She urged anyone with information about the fires to phone police on 0845 6060247 and quote reference 12100038934.

Meanwhile, in an unconnected incident, police are continuing to investigate a series of nearly 30 bin and rubbish fires in streets around Bootham Crescent and Newborough Street, Clifton, last year. On that occasion, as The Press reported at the time, hundreds of people had to be evacuated in the early hours of October 7 from an area around Upper Newborough Street in Clifton after flames from a rubbish fire spread to a gas pipe.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of starting the fires and released on bail.

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Bemused says...
11:07am Mon 15 Mar 10

Sgt Lindsey Robson, of the York South police team, said although the incident was serious, such fires were “relatively rare occurrences in York” and the city continued to be one of the safest places in England in which to live.


Rubbish!

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jez b says...
12:56pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Bemused wrote:
Sgt Lindsey Robson, of the York South police team, said although the incident was serious, such fires were “relatively rare occurrences in York” and the city continued to be one of the safest places in England in which to live.
Rubbish!
Just like the inceasingly "rare" assaults that seem to happen every week.

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hifive says...
4:35pm Mon 15 Mar 10

Rare? What a joke! It's probably rare that they're reported as no one has any faith that anything will get done! York may be one of the safest places to live as far as she's concerned, but it's the only place I've ever needed to fit CCTV in my back garden!

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old_geezer says...
7:07pm Mon 15 Mar 10

"reassured" "rare" - don't the police realise this is counterproductive nonsense?

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LittleTed says...
7:12pm Mon 15 Mar 10

jez b wrote:
Bemused wrote:
Sgt Lindsey Robson, of the York South police team, said although the incident was serious, such fires were “relatively rare occurrences in York” and the city continued to be one of the safest places in England in which to live.
Rubbish!
Just like the inceasingly "rare" assaults that seem to happen every week.
Day, even.

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King Edward says...
7:19pm Mon 15 Mar 10

You're not safe anywhere - that's the bottom line! Tazers should be made legal then we could all have one and use it to make ourselves safer. The only people who are 'safe' are criminals.

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York1900 says...
10:10pm Mon 15 Mar 10

one of the bins was that of a woman in a wheelchair who needs help in getting out of her flat

all I can say is this sicko wants catching and locking up ASAP

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realist says...
8:29am Tue 16 Mar 10

Maybe we should go back to metal bins with proper lids(making the whole bin more resistant to fire) and weekly collections = less rubbish + the lids fit.
What price progress?

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Robert Davro says...
8:42am Tue 16 Mar 10

Set alight to all of Acomb and Clifton then we'll be well rid!

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fate says...
12:25pm Tue 16 Mar 10

Does the council still feel that there has been no incidents of wheelie bin fires in York? That's what they tried to say at a public meeting held at the Guildhall when they introduced the bins to the Groves area, only to be told otherwise by people already using wheelie bins in other areas who had had arsonists setting light to bins in their area.
Oh well at least they will weigh less when they introduce 'pay as you throw'.
Does anyone charge the council rent for council property (wheelie bin) being stored on their land?
What ever was wrong with black bags? Was it to complex a system for the refuse service to deal with?

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