WA volunteer on fire, false alarm charges

A volunteer firefighter has been charged after allegedly starting two fires and making a number of false triple zero phone calls about bushfires.

The 18-year-old man is accused of making seven fake emergency calls between September and December this year in Western Australia, and attending the scenes as a volunteer firefighter.

Police say the man also lit two fires in Bedfordale southeast of Perth on December 21 and 24, and then attended the blazes as an emergency responder.

He has been charged with seven counts of creating false belief and two counts of wilfully lighting a fire likely to injure or damage.