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01-11-2006, 08:47 AM
Firemen's party ends in fire station blaze
Tue Jan 10, 10:20 AM ET
Firemen in a small Japanese town were left red-faced after a party to mark the end of a fire awareness promotional event ended in a blaze that badly damaged their station.
The two-story, wooden fire station in Shimohetsugi, southern Japan, was extensively damaged by the Sunday blaze, a spokesman for the Oita prefectural fire department said.
No one was injured in the fire, which is thought to have been started either by a gas canister used for the firemen's barbecue or by a kerosene heater.
"It's very embarrassing that this should happen to people whose job it is to go and put out fires," the spokesman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/japan_fire_dc&printer=1;_ylt=A9FJqa1hJ8VDqWkAcAUZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDM TA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
Tue Jan 10, 10:20 AM ET
Firemen in a small Japanese town were left red-faced after a party to mark the end of a fire awareness promotional event ended in a blaze that badly damaged their station.
The two-story, wooden fire station in Shimohetsugi, southern Japan, was extensively damaged by the Sunday blaze, a spokesman for the Oita prefectural fire department said.
No one was injured in the fire, which is thought to have been started either by a gas canister used for the firemen's barbecue or by a kerosene heater.
"It's very embarrassing that this should happen to people whose job it is to go and put out fires," the spokesman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/japan_fire_dc&printer=1;_ylt=A9FJqa1hJ8VDqWkAcAUZ.3QA;_ylu=X3oDM TA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-