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Arsonists attack two hauliers

30th September 2004
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Two leading operators are targeted by firebombers — Jennifer Ball reports.

TWO MAJOR haulage firms were left counting the cost after arsonists attacked trucks and trailers at their depots.

Police officers in Lincolnshire are investigating an arson attack at Canute Haulage, which caused more than £70.000 worth of damage to the vehicles and their loads.

Five trucks loaded with peat and other garden supplies were destroyed in the blaze on the Beevor Street industrial estate, Lincoln which was started at about 4.50am on Friday 17 September. Teams of firefighters from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were called to tackle the fire and managed to stop it spreading to nearby warehouses.

A Lincolnshire police spokesman reports: "The offenders broke into the locked compound then set fire to paper in one trailer. The blaze spread to other trucks in the yard causing substantial damage. An investigation is now under way."

Canute Haulage declined to comment on the blaze. Meanwhile Cumbrian police officers are exam ining security camera footage from an Eddie Stobart depot at Kingstown, Carlisle after an arson attack at the site destroyed three trailers worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Firefighters from Carlisle fought the blaze at the Wakefield Road site which was reported late at night on Thursday 23 September. Stobart bosses say that they are now likely to stop using the three-and-a-half acre site. Police and fire chiefs confirmed that they are treating the incident as arson.

On the night of the fire the firefighters were led by station officer George Sansom of the city brigade's white watch.

He outlined how the blaze started at around 8.10pm: "When we arrived last night we were confronted by a seriously developing fire which was threatening to spread to nearby Transit vans, which were parked just six or seven feet away. We're treating the fires as suspicious.

One of the burned out Stobart trailers was empty, another was carrying industrial machinery parts and the third was filled with steel racking.


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