Police charge woman after Dandenong suspicious fires

Greater Dandenong Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a 44-year-old woman following two fires in Dandenong over the weekend.

The Dandenong woman has been charged with two counts of criminal damage by fire and two counts of conduct endangering serious injury.

She was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

The charges follow two fires that police will allege were deliberately lit.

Emergency services responded following reports several bins were on fire in Boyd Lane about 5pm on Saturday, 27 May.

The fire spread to an unoccupied vehicle which was parked nearby, causing significant damage.

A second fire was reported in an underground carpark at an unoccupied apartment block on Market Street about 2am on Sunday, 28 May.

Numerous unoccupied vehicles were damaged during the fire.

No one was injured during the incidents.

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