Police were shot at with fireworks after a group of young men playing with the pyrotechnics caused a fire in Dunedin early this morning.
Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen, of Dunedin, said a group of "young males'' were setting off fireworks down an alleyway in Castle St at 15 minutes past midnight this morning.
The men were aiming them at a pile of rubbish, which caught fire.
The rubbish was piled against a house, he said.