Two trash containers were set on fire within 24 minutes in the Sykesville area Thursday night.
The first blaze was discovered at 11:28 p.m. in the 6400 block of Ridge Road and the other at 11:52 p.m. in the 7300 block of Springfield Ave.
Sykesville firefighters extinguished both fires, going directly from the first to the second. They were out 43 minutes on the fires.
Three trash containers had been set ablaze in the early hours of Dec. 16, according to fire officials. One was discovered on Liberty Road in the Winfield area at 2:38 a.m., the second nearby on West Liberty Road at 3:31 a.m. The third that morning was at 4:04 a.m. on Ridgeville Boulevard in Mount Airy.