Firemen in a small Japanese town have been 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-storey wooden fire station in Shimohetsugi, southern Japan, has been extensively damaged by the blaze. No one has been 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. | And you thought you were having a bad day ... |
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