By ADRIAN LOWE, The Age
POLICE and fire crews were kept busy on Tuesday morning by a serial arsonist who lit seven fires in Mulgrave and Noble Park.
Rubbish bins were the target of the firebug, who struck between about midnight and 4.30am Tuesday.
Detectives are examining footage from closed circuit television in a bid to find those responsible for the attacks.
The first fire was set in a rubbish bin outside a milk bar in Jacksons Road, Noble Park North, just before midnight, and the second was shortly afterwards in the nearby car park of a fast-food store on the corner of the Princes Highway and Elonera Road.
A police spokeswoman said that other fires were lit at a charity shop and a second fast-food store on the Princes Highway, at a petrol station on the corner of the Princes Highway and Corrigan Road and in two rubbish skips at the Waverley Gardens shopping centre in Police Road.
In each case, the Country Fire Authority quickly extinguished the flames.
Dandenong crime investigation unit detectives believe that the fires are linked and want to speak to four men seen leaving the scene of one of the fires in a silver VY Holden Commodore.
Anyone with information is asked to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
