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Firefighters battle huge forest blaze near Chernobyl nuclear plant

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Firefighters battle huge forest blaze near Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine causing surge in radiation levels Ukraine’s emergency services scrambled 130 firefighters and two planes to fire Blaze has engulfed 250 acres in exclusion zone, which is largely unpopulated  It spiked radiation levels, which were already high following the 1986 explosion By Jack Elsom For … Read more

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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

Firefighters were called out to lift more than 2,000 obese patients from their homes since 2017

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Firefighters have lifted more than 2,000 obese patients from their homes and into ambulances since 2017, shocking figures show Crews were called out to deal with cases up to twice a day since the start of 2017  Kent Fire service extracted over 560 obese or overweight patients in that time Experts said lives at risk … Read more