A Glasgow firefighter has spoken of the terrifying moment that fireworks were launched at her crew.

Watch Commander Debbie McCafferty, who serves both Clydesmill Community Fire Station in Glasgow and Carluke Community Fire Station, had been called to deal with an unofficial bonfire in Carluke.

The veteran firefighter and her colleagues had just begun to extinguish the fire when she heard a 'whistling noise'.

Debbie recalled: "There were loads of people around the bonfire. As we began to extinguish it and the crowd began to disperse, we heard a whistling noise.

"I looked around to my left and an unexploded firework had hit a trainee firefighter on his leg. We both instinctively kicked it away and then it went off."

Debbie, who started out her career in 2002, says that the young cr

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