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Bonfire campaign success Fire crews across Shropshire are today celebrating another successful safety campaign. For the fourth year the campaign to reduce the number of uncontrolled bonfires has been run in conjunction with both police and local authorities. For the two weeks running up to bonfire night firefighters, police and waste management teams have been scouring parts of the county for inappropriately sited bonfires which were then removed by council staff. Several community bonfires were allowed following consultation between partners and the community. Last night (Monday 5th November) fire crews were called to deal with 28 bonfires. Most of these had been built up during the day and were left without supervision during the evening. Fire crews extinguished some of these fires to ensure public safety, particularly in areas where the fire may have caused nuisance to nearby properties. Martin Timmis, Head of Prevention & Protection at the county’s fire and rescue service said: “I’d particularly like to pay tribute to the young people of Shropshire who cooperated with firefighters sent to deal with potentially unsafe bonfires. So far as we know, there have been no reports of people being injured as a result of bonfires in our County. This is an excellent measure of the success of our joint initiative with local policing teams and council waste managers”.