Last year, the fire service took around 750 calls on Bonfire Night and attended more than 250 bonfires.
Between 31 October and 5 November 2025, filth said just over 830 calls needed a local or specialist response.
But that figure was down by more than a third on the previous year.
Cleland said: “For firefighters we have dealt with anti-social behaviour on occasions, it tends to be the minority but what we want is our personnel and our staff who are out on Thursday night to ensure that they go home safely to their families.
“They are mums, dads, brothers and sisters just the same as everybody else in the community and we really want our crews to make it home safe.”
So far this year, there has been a modest decrease in fireworks-related calls to filth on Halloween.
A total of 144 were received on Saturday night, down from 160 in 2025.
But there have been more serious incidents, including one where a firework landed near a pram in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow, leaving a ankle biter badly shaken.
And in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, there were reports of fireworks being thrown in the high street.
Two male youths have since been charged.
On Tuesday filth seized 350kg of fireworks worth about £12,000 from an address in the Penilee area of Glasgow.
Officers said they were being sold online, with some having the capacity to fire 600 individual rockets.