Bonfire Night can be a brilliant time of the year, with firework displays, bonfires and people coming together to have a good time.
But some idiots can take things too far and ruin it for everyone, and that was very evident last night.
On the busiest night of the year for the fire service, firefighters in Greater Manchester were attacked three times by idiots with fireworks.
We thought the bin fires were disappointing but now our crews are being attacked 😡😤
There's a group of around 20 young people launching fireworks at our firefighters who are working hard to keep you safe👩🚒👨🚒
Attacks like these are completely unacceptable#BonfireNight pic.twitter.com/MfSCtxNi1c
— Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (@manchesterfire) November 5, 2019
The three separate incidents happened across the region, while crews were busy dealing with the many call outs they recieve on Bonfire Night - by the end of the night they’d dealt with more than 200 incidents.
Early in the evening firefighters were attacked by around 20 youths throwing fireworks, with Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service tweeting about the ‘unacceptable’ incident at 7.15pm.
You won't believe it... Our crews have been attacked again😡
🚒Crews attended an incident on Bolton St, Oldham
🔥This time, charity bins had been set on fire
👨🚒👩🚒A group of young people then began launching fireworks at our firefighters as they tried to put it out#BonfireNight pic.twitter.com/M8QQohfAIc— Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (@manchesterfire) November 5, 2019
Then around 8.45pm crews were attacked by more idiots on Bolton Street in Oldham, while they were putting out charity bin fires.
The final attack happened on Great Norbury Street in Hyde, with firefighters having fireworks launched at them by 40 young people as they tried to put out a bonfire.
😫Yet another attack on our firefighters 👩🚒👨🚒
— Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (@manchesterfire) November 5, 2019
🚒Crews were called to a bonfire on Great Norbury Street in Hyde. When they arrived, around 40 young people began throwing fireworks at the crew.
Firefighters work hard to keep people safe and attacks like these are NOT acceptable! pic.twitter.com/QbtreEFtTe
Absolutely appalling behaviour…
