A TEENAGER was hit in the face with a firework in York, causing possible damage to his eye.

The 13-year-old boy was rushed to York Hospital just after 7.30pm yesterday after ambulance crews were called to Beaconsfield Street, Acomb.

The incident on Bonfire Night came amid a busy evening for ambulance and fire crews. A 76-year-old woman in Scarborough suffered serious injuries to her foot when she was hit by a firework in Manham Hill, Eastfield, Scarborough.

She was taken to Scarborough General Hospital just after 7.20pm. Another woman, aged in her early 20s, was also hit in the foot with a firework, which was believed to have been thrown on a bonfire on the beach near Foreshore Road, Scarborough, just before 9pm yesterday.

She was taken by ambulance to Scarborough General Hospital just before 9pm yesterday. Fire crews were later called to the same beach to extinguish six fireworks.

A fire service spokeswoman said: "A lady was walking on a path opposite the beach and the firework had shot across and injured her foot."

A police spokesman confirmed that the woman's boot had been blown off by a firework and that she had suffered burns to her foot. She was expected to attend the hospital's fracture clinic today. She had not yet made a complaint to officers.

Fire crews were also called to a fire in a farm building in Hawsker, off the B1447 near Robin Hood's Bay at about 9.30pm yesterday.

Updated: 10:40 Thursday, November 06, 2003