Firefighters in a north Shropshire town have been tackling a series of "deliberate" fires.
One crew from Ellesmere Fire Station attended a fire in the open in the Mere area of Ellesmere at around 9.20pm on Saturday night.
They said the incident was the second deliberate fire at the Mere in a week, and the third deliberate fire setting in the town in June.
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A post on their Facebook page said: "At 21:21 last night, the Ellesmere crew were mobilised to a fire in the open in Ellesmere. This incident was a deliberate fire setting in the area of the Mere.
"This is the second deliberate fire setting at the Mere this week and the third deliberate fire setting in Ellesmere this month."
A spokesperson for Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "One small fire consisting of twigs and leaves deliberately started.
"Crews extinguished using soil and dragging out nothing in use."
In a separate incident, one fire crew from the town was called out on Sunday evening to another fire in the open.
The call out to the Mere area of the town happened at around 7.30pm. Firefighters used buckets of water to put the fire out.
A spokesperson for SFRS said: "Small fire in wooded area."
It's unclear whether that fire was also deliberate.
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