TWO hoaxers who have made false calls to the fire service could face prosecution.

Their mobile phone numbers have been recorded and passed on to the police. The calls, made during the past 24-hours, have been condemned by firefighters.

Alec Mackie, spokesman for Hereford and Worcester Fire Service, said police are now set to contact the mobile phone operators, order the hoax callers be cut off, prosecuted and blacklisted from buying mobiles in the future.

The first hoax call was made at around 7pm, when smoke was said to be billowing from a house in Droitwich Road, Worcester.

The second call came five hours later at around 12.11am today. The caller claimed people were trapped in a house fire in Leckhampton Close, Warndon, Worcester.

Mr Mackie said the calls were made from two different mobile telephone numbers and he believed the two incidents are unrelated.

"When we attended the scenes of these alleged incidents we found nothing," he said.

"The serious side of this is that two fire engines from Worcester, on both occasions, had to go out to fires that turned out to be fictitious. There could have been a real incident somewhere else. It then could have taken longer to attend, putting lives at risk."