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More hoax callers 'put lives at risk' - LISTEN TO AUDIO
HOAX callers are continuing to put lives at risk in Scarborough.
Firefighters in the town have received seven more malicious calls since the Evening News helped launch a clampdown just over a month ago.
We have obtained recordings of four of these latest calls which you can listen to by clicking the links below.
It is hoped that either readers or website visitors will recognise the time-wasters who have helped make 49 such calls in Scarborough over the past year.
In one of the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service recordings, a young voice can be heard saying there is grass on fire in Manor Road Park.
The second call is from a man who sounds older and claims there is a fire at the Brooklands Hotel in Esplanade Gardens.
In the third recording, another young voice seems to be saying someone is "trashing" a house in Colescliffe Road but the Fire Brigade sound unsure and when they ask if someone is "trapped" in the house the caller hangs up.
The last call is from another young voice who calls themself Tony and says a house in Queen Street is in flames, but the line goes silent when asked which town they are in.
Marc Warren, the temporary station manager in Scarborough, said: "Due to the education work we conduct with young people and the initiatives such as this, assisted by the Scarborough Evening News, the trend in malicious calls across the country to the fire and rescue service is decreasing in number.
"I'm aware that a number of calls were made to the police following the launch of this initiative and I would like to thank those people for their actions.
He added: "Although there is a financial cost to responding to these incidents, the true cost of the calls are in the time taken to deal with them.
"While the Fire and Rescue Service is responding to these incidents there is a potential risk that we may not be able to respond as efficiently to genuine incidents where the public need our help."
To listen to the phone calls click on the links below:
Hoax call to an incident in Colescliffe
Hoax call to an incident to the Brooklands Hotel
Hoax call to an incident on Manor Road
Hoax call to an incident in Queen Street
To read our previous article from April and listen to the hoax calls from then click here
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