FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze at a semi-detached house in Farnworth on Thursday night after a nine-year-old boy set fire to curtains in a bedroom.
A neighbour raised the alarm at 8.40pm when he saw smoke coming from an upstairs window at a house in Moorside Avenue. He ran into the home and threw wet towels on the flames
No-one was injured.
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