Eighty firefighters are sent to blaze tearing through a block of flats in southeast London

Eighty firefighters are sent to blaze tearing through a block of flats in southeast London Twelve fire engines were sent to the scene from surrounding fire stations Videos and pictures of social media show the sixth-floor flat’s roof on fire The London Fire Brigade were first called at 07:26 p.m. on Wednesday The cause of … Read more

Sixty firefighters are sent to blaze tearing through a block of flats in southeast London 

Sixty firefighters are sent to blaze tearing through a block of flats in southeast London Twelve fire engines were sent to the scene from surrounding fire stations Videos and pictures of social media show the sixth-floor flat’s roof on fire The London Fire Brigade were first called at 07:26 p.m. on Wednesday The cause of … Read more

Eleven firefighters injured and building ablaze after massive explosion in downtown LA

An explosion Saturday at a hash oil manufacturer in downtown Los Angeles injured 11 firefighters who had gone inside the building after an initial report of a fire and then had to run for their lives when a ball of flame shot out the building that was so intense it scorched a fire parked truck … Read more

Twenty fire engines and 125 firefighters tackle huge fire on an industrial estate in east London 

Twenty fire engines and 125 firefighters tackle huge fire on an industrial estate in east London Officers were called to a single storey warehouse on Alfreds Way on Friday Fire crews from Barking, East Ham, Dagenham, Plaistow, Ilford at the scene Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters are tacking the fire this evening  By … Read more

Firefighters begin grim task of transporting coronavirus dead to makeshift mortuary

Firefighters begin grim task of transporting coronavirus dead from overwhelmed hospitals to a makeshift mortuary in industrial park that can hold up to 1,000 bodies Bodies being taken from hospitals in Greater Manchester to a special mortuary The new mortuary in Trafford can hold up to 1,000 bodies in an industrial park It opened on Monday and is … Read more

Firefighters use aerial ladder to hoist ‘obese’ patient with suspected coronavirus

London firefighters in gasmasks use crane to hoist obese patient with suspected coronavirus out of second floor window to be treated by paramedics in hazmats on the ground Rescue workers seen carrying patient through a window using an aerial ladder  Wore rescue masks fitted with air filters and decontaminated equipment after All three emergency services … Read more

Tiny starling leaves firefighters baffled as it gets stuck in drain cover 

Tiny starling leaves firefighters baffled as it gets stuck in drain cover Bird-brained starling left firefighters puzzled as it got trapped in road manhole RSPCA dashed to Downham Market, Norfolk after receiving call from public Workers and firefighters all posed for pictures with the songbird after The starling was taken to East Winch Wildlife Centre and … Read more

Firefighters save pig’s bacon after it ate another swine’s pedometer

Firefighters save pig’s bacon after it ate another swine’s pedometer – and caught fire when it came out the other end Firefighters were called to the pigpen in Bramham, West Yorkshire, on Sunday Blaze had been caused by copper from the device’s batteries reacting with hay Pedometer had clearly been mistaken by a pig as … Read more

Oxford Street is closed as 70 firefighters battle huge blaze at a souvenir shop 

Oxford Street is closed as 70 firefighters battle huge blaze at a souvenir shop Fire broke out on ground floor of a five-storey souvenir shop in Mayfair on Friday  70 firefighters and 10 engines from six boroughs were scrambled to tackle blaze  Oxford Street was partially shut from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus stations By … Read more

Bungling burglar gets stuck on a third floor window ledge and has to be rescued by firefighters

Bungling burglar gets stuck on a third floor window ledge and has to be rescued by firefighters Suhant B, 28, got stuck on a third-floor window ledge and had to be rescued Police sources say the construction worker was trying to break into the house Video shows two firefighters helping him down a ladder in Bangalore, … Read more