Firefighters take 1,000 calls during Bonfire Night attacks

Firefighters says they responded to much than 1,000 calls connected Bonfire Night with crews "bombarded" by missiles and fireworks.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said determination were six incidents wherever teams were attacked - 3 successful Clydebank, 2 successful Edinburgh and 1 successful Blackridge successful West Lothian.

Police officers were besides attacked with fireworks, bricks and bottles but said incidents of superior upset had fallen this year.

The unit said the attacks connected exigency services was "wholly unacceptable" and officers were moving to hint those responsible.

Andy Watt, Deputy Chief Officer for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the attacks prevented crews from dealing with emergencies swiftly.

He said: "This benignant of behaviour is, of course, carried retired by a precise tiny number and we erstwhile again convey our communities for their continuing enactment and moving unneurotic with america to enactment harmless crossed the Bonfire period.”

Police were called to tackle pockets of upset successful Edinburgh, Glasgow and others parts of the country.

The unit said ample groups of youths had gathered successful Niddrie, Sighthill and Moredun successful Edinburgh and thrown fireworks, bottles and bricks astatine cars and constabulary vehicles.

Control zones banning the usage of fireworks successful definite areas of the metropolis are successful spot until 10 November for the archetypal time.

Parts of Glasgow were owed to beryllium covered by a akin prohibition but it was was delayed until adjacent twelvemonth owed to a assembly error.

Police said determination were pockets of upset successful Glasgow, with youths throwing fireworks astatine members of the public, vehicles and constabulary officers.

Footage taken successful Pollokshields, successful the southbound broadside of the city, showed fireworks being acceptable disconnected by a radical successful the mediate of the street.

No 1 was injured successful incidents successful Glasgow and Edinburgh, constabulary confirmed.

A 25-year-old antheral was arrested and a "significant quantity" of fireworks seized aft a hunt of a van successful the Drumchapel.

The unit said the fireworks were being sold to the wide public, including to under-age children.

Meanwhile, successful Peterhead astatine astir 21:20, a antheral was deed by a van driven by a radical who, moments before, had acceptable disconnected a pyrotechnic successful a skate parkland successful Aalesund Road.

The 33-year-old was treated by paramedics astatine the country but did not request further aesculapian attention.

Police are moving to place the suspects and anyone with accusation has been asked to travel forward.

Overall, the unit said the incidents of superior upset had fallen this year.

As portion of Operation Moonbeam, a constabulary cognition launched successful 2020 to woody with upset astatine this clip of year, specializer resources were deployed 26 times connected 5 November past twelvemonth - this twelvemonth determination were 18 deployments.

The fig of injured officers has besides reduced importantly - 62 past twelvemonth compared to 1 this year.

Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, golden commandant for Operation Moonbeam said challenging scenes had not escalated to wide upset arsenic it had past year.

He said: "Nevertheless, the levels of unit and aggression constabulary officers, occurrence work and ambulance work unit faced successful immoderate areas was wholly unacceptable and a important investigative effect is present underway to place each and each 1 of those progressive and bring them to justice.

"Throughout Operation Moonbeam, we person utilised each authorities and policing powers astatine our disposal and we volition proceed our discussions with section authorities and Scottish authorities to research further opportunities for reducing fireworks offences for adjacent twelvemonth and moving forward."