Fire crews across South Wales tackled 13 deliberately set fires in less than 12 hours.

From around 5pm on Saturday to 1.30am on Sunday morning crews from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called out to 13 deliberately set fires out of 15 incidents overall.

The incidents included refuse near a primary school in Rhymney being set fire and a dumped fridge was also set fire to in Phillipstown, near New Tredegar.

The first incident happened at around 4.50pm where Aberbargoed crews attended a deliberately set fire on Manmoel Crossing in Blackwood .

Refuse was then set fire to near the train station at Ton Pentre where a Tonypandy crew attended the scene at 5.04pm.

The Pontycymer fire crew extinguished a fire with beaters after grass was deliberately set fire to on the mountainside at Princetown, Nantymoel at 5.19pm.

Hose reels were used in a later incident when the Maesteg crew attended a refuse fire on George Street, Caerau, at 5.59pm.

Three minutes later the Rhymney crew attended a deliberately set refuse fire near a primary school in Eglwys Fan at 6.02pm.

The Abergavenny crew attended a large well alight bonfire on Firs Road Abergavenny at 6.25pm with hose reels used to extinguish the flames.

Refuse was then deliberately set on fire next to the community centre on Moorland Park Lliswerry at 7.24pm where the Maindee crew attended.

A fridge dumped on waste ground in Phillipstown was set alight, prompting the Aberbargoed crew to attended where they extinguished the fire and requested removal of the fridge.

Around 10 minutes later an Aberbargoed fire crew attended a deliberately set refuse fire on the common at Aneurin Bevan Avenue in Hengoed at 7.43pm.

A car was deliberately set on fire on Glanafon Terrace Caerau at 9.26pm where Maesteg crew attended and a bench was deliberately set on fire next to Trecenydd Community Centre at 9.42pm which was extinguished by a Caerphilly crew attended using hose reels.

Another car was deliberately set on fire on Church Street, Bedwas, at 10.38pm Caerphilly crew attended using hosereels.

A third car was "completely destroyed" by a deliberately set fire in a field off Ringland Centre, Newport, at 1.34am where a Maindee crew attended.

Head of Joint Fire Control for South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Jennie Griffiths, tweeted information about all of the incidents on Sunday morning.

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