Firework hazard on Kidderminster estate (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

Firework hazard on Kidderminster estate

8:19am Saturday 3rd October 2009 in News

FIREFIGHTERS from Kidderminster spent 20 minutes making safe a lit firework on a town estate.

Youths chucked the firework into a bush near a house on Tennyson Way, on the Offmore Farm Estate, just before 9pm last night.

The firework did not go off but ended up embedded in woodchips under the bush, still lit.

Firefighters had to dig out the firework before making it safe.

A fire service spokesman said: "The gentleman who lived at the property was understandibly very concerned about the incident.

"Sadly, this was just one more in a long list of crimes happening on this estate."

Earlier in the evening, at approximately 7pm, Kidderminster firefighters were also called out to Walton Ash Road where a wooden pallet had been set on fire.