FIRE crews had to extinguish several potentially dangerous bonfires in North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire firefighters had a typically busy Bonfire night this November 5.

First they were called to Larpool Crescent in Whitby at about 8pm, after being told fireworks were being thrown on to a bonfire. When the firebrigade arrived they didn’t find fireworks, but discovered it was very near to an electricity sub-station and put it out.

Later in the evening they extinguished a large bonfire at a play area on Helredale Road, Whitby, which had been started by young people drinking alcohol.

Fire crews were called out again in the town just after midnight. A bonfire was burning on open ground at Runswick Avenue close to a house and fire crews extinguished it while police attended the scene.

Elsewhere they were also called to a small, rubbish fire near the church gates on the High Street in Catterick, which was put out.

And at one point during the evening North Yorkshire fire crews were asked to rescue a 12-week old beagle puppy, which had become scared by fireworks and run behind the shed of a home in Camblesforth near Selby, where it became stuck. They managed to release it without the need for rescue equipment.

Across North Yorkshire, fire crews received more than 30 bonfire-related call-outs throughout the night. Many related to reports of fires out of control in fields or on open land, which firefighters found were under control when they arrived.

A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said it had been a typically busy bonfire night for the fire service.

“We had a number of calls to fires out of control which tended to be false alarms. But we’d still rather people rang in and reported something like that if they have any concerns.”