Data just released to the public shows details of the attacks made on firefighters in Greater Manchester

Groups of drunken youths throwing stones, objects being dropped from a highrise building and even abusive passers-by are revealed in the release of data showing attacks on the fire service.

In 69 recorded incidents between April last year and last week, the data shows that Salford had the most attacks with 14 incidents.

Some of the other information contained within the data:

* Alcohol was identified as a factor in almost half of the attacks (30 incidents) and drugs featured in seven cases.

* Firefighters face dangers from motorists including a taxi driver which the logs says drove at a firefighter at Ashton town hall in Tameside.

* Aggressive youths feature in many of the incidents including being pelted with eggs, having fireworks aimed at firefighters and dropping objects from highrises.

* People preventing access to deal with fires or injuries.

* Firefighters being racially abused while attending jobs.

* The data set available below is an edited version of the full set which was released last night at the Greater Manchester data store along with details of the number of fire and rescue incidents for the service.



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