Police have arrested two youths on suspicion of removing sandbags from flood defences in York.
Both teenagers were aged under 18.
A North Yorkshire police spokesman said: "We do treat this seriously and are surprised that people would remove sandbags and put people's lives at risk."
Police are on the lookout in case others try to do the same.
The maximum sentence for criminal damage being reckless as to whether life would be endangered is life imprisonment.
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