This year's bonfire weekend celebrations in Oxfordshire were one of the safest in years, say fire chiefs.

The county's Fire and Rescue Service was called out to 15 incidents from November 3 to November 5 - 12 of which turned out to be false alarms.

The three incidents firefighters dealt with were a wayward firework which hit a tree in Oxford, an out-of-control bonfire also in Oxford, and a firework in a skip in Henley.

No-one was hurt in any of the incidents, said risk reduction manager Peter Cleary.

He said: "We have had a really safe bonfire weekend and are really pleased there have been no injuries and relatively few incidents.

"It all fits in to the 365 Alive message, which is our 10-year campaign to reduce the number of deaths on the roads or in fires by 365 people."

The number of incidents was down 25 per cent compared with Bonfire Night in 2005.

The fire service said a full breakdown of statistics was not possible because the way incidents are logged had changed.

Mr Cleary said the drop in callouts could be because Bonfire Night fell on a weekend, and more people were going to organised public displays.

The fire service also ran a two-week safety awareness campaign in the build-up to the event.

Oxford fire station manager Chris Wilson, based at Rewley Road, said: "Residents appeared to be more aware this Bonfire Night and although the number of callouts was lower, people appeared to be quick to report incidents, enabling crews to attend promptly and keep the amount of damage to a minimum."

The RSPCA was called to two incidents over the weekend.

One was a report of a man throwing fireworks at animals in Didcot on November 4, while the other was to a horse which was injured when it ran into a fence after being scared by fireworks in Oxford.