Fire fighters try to put out a tyre fire in Spring Mill Street off Manchester Road. EVERY active firefighter working for West Yorkshire Fire Service attended a huge tyre blaze in Bradford at some point - Councillors have been told. The fire at a tyre storage yard at Spring Mill Street in Bradford took three weeks to fully extinguish, and has proved to be the biggest blaze in West Yorkshire in the past year. More details of the fire were revealed at a meeting of West Yorkshire Fire Authority on Thursday, when members heard that “virtually every member” of the fire service attended the incident at some point.
Bonfire and fireworks events aren’t being staged this year FIREFIGHTERS had to deal with a “significant increase” in Bonfire season incidents this year - and attacks on firefighters in the period also rose. West Yorkshire Fire Service has released its final report into the 2020 Bonfire period, and it reveals that a mix of dry weather and the Covid 19 pandemic led to a big rise in the number of call outs to arsons or out of control fires compared to 2019. And in Bradford there were two incidents where firefighters were hit by missiles. Overall there were 10 attacks on firefighters in West Yorkshire over the Bonfire period, with six of these being in Bradford.