The north’s top firefighter has praised his crews’ response to this week’s floods.
The brigade responded to 31 incidents in the Highlands in the space of just 24 hours from 7am on Monday.
They rescued people who were stranded, evacuated others and battled to protect properties.
They responded to call-outs as far apart as Speyside, Sutherland, Kingussie and Ullapool, which was particularly badly affected.
Assistant Chief Officer Robert Scott, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service’s director of service delivery in the north of Scotland, said: “Monday was an exceptionally busy period for operational crews in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Moray, as well as our control personnel.
“Firefighters work to conduct safe and efficient rescues and evacuations – and to clear floodwater from properties – required intense efforts to be sustained over considerable time.
“Communities were protected by wholetime, retained and community response units, all of whom put their training, skills and experience to use whenever they were called on.
“The large number of 999 calls to operations control meant our personnel there were vital to ensuring the appropriate resources were mobilised and could get to where they were needed, despite many flooded and damaged roads.”