Thursday 5 February 2009

Fire! - Some One's Dinner's Burning

Where is the last place you would expect to find a fire? That's right, a fire station! Well that's exactly what happened in the Japanese town of Nagoya. A blaze broke out after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. Most of the duty staffers were out on a call when their colleague, alone at the station and cooking dinner for the crew, was himself called out. In his haste to respond to the call, he forgot to turn the stove off, said Seiji Hori, a Nagoya City Fire Department official. Hori added "We are an institute that should be in a position to educate people about fire, so we are extremely sorry that such an incident happened," Hori said. He then added, that they would consider ordering-in for dinner from now on. Perhaps they'll pop out for an English take-away.