Moments after this footage was shot, a thug prised open the door and hit a firefighter as his crew battled a blaze in Rochdale.
The drunken youth was given a 12-month supervision order when he appeared in court.
Fire chiefs have released the footage as attacks on Greater Manchester crews already show signs of increasing dramatically in the run-up to Bonfire Night.
Between April last year and March this year there were 259 attacks on crews. Since April 1 there have been 129 - with 15 already this month.
The brigade is using a poster campaign to help stop assaults and catch the culprits. Witnesses are urged to call a hotline with information, and a message warns: "If you stop us doing our job, you put your family in danger."
The poster, showing youths throwing bricks at the windscreen of a fire engine, will go up on billboards county-wide. Children as young as 14 threw lit fireworks at an engine as it answered an emergency call at Hope Hospital, Salford, last week.
In the past 12 months crews in the county have been shot at, physically attacked and bombarded with missiles.
Yobs have even filmed their attacks on mobile phones and, in a sinister development, a volley of bricks damaged the cars of several firefighters parked in a station yard at Gorton, Manchester.
At Eccles a fire engine was vandalised and burgled as the crew worked to rescue a woman and children from a house. A 17-year-old youth from Little Hulton, Salford, was given 12 months' detention in July after brandishing a knife at a firefighter trying to tackle a blaze.
Last year, October and November saw the most serious outbreak of violence against crews, with 42 and 48 incidents respectively, and fire chiefs expect a surge in incidents over the next few weeks. But they are determined to get the support of the public to help put those responsible in front of the courts. The M.E.N.'s Protect Our Heroes campaign has successfully backed a bid for tough new laws to guard firefighters from yobs.
Last week a second reading of the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill, which aims to make it an offence to "obstruct or hinder" emergency service workers, was given in theLords.
The Bill, launched by Swansea Labour MP Alan Williams and backed by the M.E.N., has cleared its Commons stages.
County fire officer Barry Dixon said: "In the last 15 years a situation has developed where certain elements think it is all right to attack emergency workers. We want to ensure Bonfire Night is safe for the majority."
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I just don't understand when or why baiting and attacking firemen became such a "fashion". Why should firemen and women have to put up with it ? I'd put the hose on them if it were me !
NOW COME ON!. WHEN WE CATCH THESE YOUTHS THEY WILL PROBABLY BE GIVEN A NICE HOLIDAY OVERSEAS AS PUNISHMENT!!
The reason Mr Dixon is upset about this is that he thinks attacking firefighters should be the preserve of GMC management.
These yobs should be hosed with dye so everyone knows who they are and then maybe a piece of four by two might meet the back of there head. Ops sorry its against there human rights.
Ms D, Firemen are all too prone too dismissal/conduct code for any such offence including larking around inside tumble driers :p, if they turned their high power hoses on these scum, besides being sacked, they would face charges of assault from the police, if only they could though.
they don't get paid enough those boys.
12 months supervision order for assaulting a fireman: thats why it will keep happening.
After dealing with the yobs maybe squashing the parents with a fire engine may halt future scum being born.
the fireman should boycot these areas and hope the yobs families are trapped in a fire
as this is what the yobs want to happen to other families
the law is too soft and the human rights groups are all wrong. its time someone stood for the victims
public flogging for ther first offence. repeat the offence five years in one of the new floating prison ships, third offence .... execution.
The firemen SHOULD be allowed to turn their hoses on the children assaulting them WITHOUT disciplinaries or sackings and without fear of assault charges/proceedings brought by the police and kids' parents and human rights of those kids shouldn't come into it OR be allowed to come into it. I personally WOULD allow firemen to do this to ANYONE who attacks or assaults them;it would teach the children a lesson and make it a zerotolerance offence in that "if you attack or assault firemen doing their job they will punish you".
8 year ago, the goverment came to power on a song that said 'Things can olny get better'. Not for firemen eh? Ha.
Castrate the fathers then the yobs.
woaaaaa MEN why are you blanking their faces? stuff age rules etc, show their faces so when people see them out in the street they can lob bricks back at them!!..... dont protect them! protect our 999 crews, people like my father ( paramedic ) who go about doing a great job only to be attacked abused and spat etc!.
I cannot understand why the imbeciles do not have their faces shown,and enlarged,therefore identified and punished, personally i would have no hesitaion in turning the hose at full blast and washing them down the gutter like the vermin that they are.
This should be treated as civil disobediance/riot and the guilty subject to baton rounds with rubber bullets, baton charges and water canon etc. Once arrested and detained minimum sentence after trial three years hard labour on public works projects. Their parents should also be detained tried for selfish negligence to the human rights of others and when found guilty stripped of all social security benefits etc. Couple that with the Police and emergency services being given the right (With appropriate safeguards) to use physical means to deter and stop such attacks. It is apparent to me that these lowlifes attack in packs and if subjected to a threat themselves would run a mile. Scumbag cowards the lot of them. Unfortunately this is now accepted behaviour in some areas and unless drastic action is taken will result in the death/s of both emergency services staff and fire victims.