Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service Darker Nights campaign

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service speak out about their Darker Night Campaign as they team up with emergency services across the region.

Transcript

00:00 Do you want to tell us a little bit about the Darker Night campaign?

00:03 The Darker Night campaign that we're running at the moment involves our department, Prevention

00:08 Education, going into schools to deliver the message about being safe. There's lots of

00:13 organised displays so we're kind of promoting that as well. It's about the ripple effect

00:17 that it has and the consequences of people's actions.

00:20 And what's some of the typical incidents that you see on Bonfire Night?

00:23 So a lot of the incidents that we're seeing are to do with injuries to hands, faces, ear

00:29 and loss. There's lots of different injuries that can be caused, not just to the individuals

00:34 but other people surrounding as well.

00:37 And what's some of your top tips for keeping safe on Bonfire Night?

00:40 So as Stephen's already mentioned there, our top tips for keeping safe on Bonfire Night

00:45 would be to attend organised displays. These displays are set by professionals who know

00:50 exactly what they're doing. The distances and viewing distances are all calculated properly

00:54 and it reduces the chances of somebody being injured from a stray firework as they potentially

00:59 could be from a domestic display.

01:01 Also just to build on what Stephen's mentioned there, a lot of the incidents we attend on

01:06 and around Bonfire Night are around deliberate antisocial behaviour involving fires and the

01:11 use of fireworks. So our advice to parents would be to be mindful of where your children

01:16 are on those nights, have a word with them about being responsible on and around Bonfire

01:21 Night, not starting deliberate secondary fires and not illegally using fireworks in and around

01:26 their communities.