(Image: MFRS)The incident comes amid a sharp rise in grass and rubbish fires across Merseyside during the school holidays. Between 20 July and 9 August, firefighters attended 418 grass and rubbish fires across the county. Across a longer period, from 1 June to 9 August, MFRS attended 945 grass and rubbish fires, including 643 grassland fires. More than half of the grass and rubbish fires attended during that period, 515 in total, were recorded as deliberate. You can reduce the risk of grass fires by: