Caravan owners fined after blaze
When fire agency officers arrived on site, they noted the caravans had been set alight under high-voltage power lines
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Two Wolverhampton men have been charged with illegally disposing on caravans after a local resident reported them to the Environment Agency.
Brothers Carl Mitchell Nedic and Christopher Tony Nedic set fire to their mobile homes at a caravan park owned by their parents, the Birmingham Mail reported.
When agency officers arrived on site, they noted that the caravans had been set alight directly below overhead high-voltage power lines.
Both men admitted to disposing of the vehicles without the proper environmental licence and received fines totalling around £10,000.
Environment Agency officer Kevin Heede explained that caravan park owners have a responsibility to deal with their waste in the proper fashion and warned that the organisation would pursue any similar cases in the same manner.
Telford Magistrates Court ordered each to pay a fine of £1,800, costs of £3,327 and a victim surcharge of £15.
Meanwhile, the Plymouth Herald recently revealed that a caravan fire at a travellers' site in Laira may have been started by children.