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Firemen at same flat seven times in seven months Firemen had to return to the same Graz apartment yesterday (Tues) for the seventh time in seven months, police said. The 37-year-old unemployed alcoholic resident had forgotten to remove a pot of beans from a hotplate before taking a nap and it had caught on fire.
Fire brigade bills fairground ride victims for rescue Fourteen people rescued by the fire brigade after being left dangling upside down from a Berlin fairground ride last summer for nearly an hour have been slapped with a hefty bill, a spokesman said Monday.
Pickled chameleon in broken jar sparks chemical alert A fire brigade sent 18 officers, three engines and a specialist equipment unit to clean up after a jar containing a pickled chameleon fell off a shelf and broke.
German blows up apartment while trying to fix airbed A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Düsseldorf said on Wednesday.
Girl left to die in blazing car after driver boyfriend told fire crews no one was insideA man left his girlfriend to burn to death in a car after he crashed into a tree, a court heard yesterday. Waqas Arshad, 24, told emergency services there was nobody inside, despite knowing 17-year-old Emily Brady was trapped in the burning wreckage.
Fat Boy, the pony who got drunk on fermented apples and fell into a swimming pool It was not Fat Boy the pony's best night. First he ate so many fermented apples that he became drunk. Then he staggered across a garden and tumbled into a swimming pool.
A 999 rescue for Woody, the iguana that branched out Cats are their stock in trade. But when firemen were summoned to rescue an iguana stuck up a tree, they responded with a due sense of gravity.
Firefighters banned from visiting smokers' homes to offer safety adviceThey are trained to brave every kind of danger to safeguard the public, but now firefighters are being ordered to turn back if they encounter a cloud of smoke - from a cigarette.
Fishy callout for firemanA kipper was the culprit in a suspected electrical fire this afternoon. Gravesend fire station were called to a house in Cornwell Road, at 2pm today after a couple feared a strong smell in their kitchen was being caused by an electrical fire.
Fire whips though bondage parlourA misplaced candle is believed to have started a fire that caused about $100,000 damage to a bondage and discipline parlour in inner Melbourne.
Fires burn on several fronts along NSW coastFirefighters are trying to bring under control around 50 fires which are burning along the New South Wales coast, as winds reaching up to 100 kilometres an hour fan the flames. The fires have destroyed at least four homes.
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