FIRE chiefs are urging businesses to arm themselves against would-be arsonists as two teenagers start jail sentences for a £2 million blaze.
Martin Green and Matthew Kneafsey started Selby's worst fire in 25 years by setting light to cardboard and other rubbish piled near the Somerfield supermarket in Selby.
The flames spread and devastated the store in May last year along with the adjacent Wilkinson in an eight-hour inferno which was fought by 65 firefighters.
Green, of Hutchinson Street, Selby, faces two years in prison and Kneafsey, of Eden Street, Selby, received three years.
Today station manager Alan Bell today welcomed the sentences saying they would act as a deterrent to others.
"The sentences given by the court shows how seriously arson attacks are taken and serve as a warning to other people who might think about starting fires," he said.
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