It’s the busiest time of year for the emergency services, but last night’s 5 November celebrations passed off relatively peacefully in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service received around 400 calls over 24 hours, a figure slightly down on previous years. Crews attended 140 bonfires across the force area and extinguished 78 of these.
Sadly, police had to come to the rescue of firefighters who came under attack while carrying out their duties at two separate incidents.
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That’s fantastic news: Have to say the children (50+) I seen at the bonfire on Muirhouse Avenue behaved very responsibly this year. Then this morning a local resident came around collecting all the the left behind metal. So its all nice and tidy now 🙂 To add I think it’s disgusting that Lothian and Borders fire service reported two attacks on their staff. Albeit they were both minor and it’s a huge improvement on previous years, this is still unacceptable.
On 6 November 2012 11:00, North Edinburgh News wrote:
> ** > davepickering posted: “[caption id="attachment_5297" > align="aligncenter" width="594"] Bonfire, Wester Drylaw Place[/caption] > It’s the busiest time of year for the emergency services, but last night’s > 5 November celebrations passed off relatively peacefully in Edinburgh and > th”