Proactive patrolling in North Amherst on the night of Feb. 10 and cold weather the next night are being credited by police with reducing the number of noise complaints and major incidents during the weekend.

Though college-age people in large numbers headed to North Amherst from the University of Massachusetts campus on the evening of Feb. 10 and into the early morning hours, police received few reports of loud parties.

"Friday night was super-busy with people being around, but nothing really got organized," said Detective David Foster.

Early on the morning of Feb. 11, police responded to three locations where loud parties were taking place. At 12:13 a.m., officers cleared out 75 guests from a Shumway Street home and issued the tenants a warning about the town's noise bylaw. At 12:37 a.m., officers responded for the second time within an hour to a Pelham Road residence, where 40 guests were removed from a party.

The only party that prompted a fine took place at Crestview Apartments on North Pleasant Street where at 2:01 a.m. police issued a 21-year-old Marlborough man a $300 ticket for violating the town's noise bylaw. The ticket was issued after the man slammed the front door on responding officers when they asked him to quiet down and they observed a marijuana bong, grinder and joints in plain view.

Firefighters were busy on the night of Feb. 10 outside the Mullins Center, where electronic dance music artist Rusko was performing. Between 8:38 p.m. and 11:19 p.m., ambulance crews transported eight drunken people to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, many of them vomiting beforehand, and treated an additional five patients at the scene.

Assistant Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren said an ambulance and crew were stationed outside the venue, but additional municipal ambulances were needed.

"All five of our ambulances and our on-duty crew were occupied for a couple of hours with the calls from the Mullins Center Friday night," Stromgren said.

Six other intoxicated individuals were taken to Cooley Dickinson during the weekend, completing a week in which there were a total of 91 ambulance runs, according to information furnished by Stromgren.

The night of Feb. 11 began with a fire in a Hobart Lane Dumpster where fires have been repeatedly lit. Police and firefighters got to the scene at 6:09 p.m. to douse the flames.

Foster said the fire is under investigation and a suspect may be identified soon.

Only one major party was reported to police that night. At 11:31 officers went to a Main Street home and sent 75 partygoers on their way.

"Cold weather helped us out a bit," Foster said of the relatively quiet weekend.