Youths start fire in Tas camp: police

Several campers have been evacuated from a camping ground in northwest Tasmania after two youths allegedly set fire to thick scrub.

Firefighters used a helicopter water bomber to put out the blaze in the Black River camping ground on the Bass Highway, Black River on Thursday afternoon.

A small amount of camping equipment was destroyed by the fire but no one was injured.

Police say a 13-year-old Central Coast youth and 14-year-old Burnie youth who were found at the camp ground and brought in for questioning, later admitted to setting the scrub alight.

They will be proceeded against under the Youth Justice Act for unlawfully setting fire to vegetation.