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andydp
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 Posted: 01/11/06 - 14:37 Post subject: Sometimes, even Japanese firemen have bad days
This might last a bit longer... However, I can see that firemen are party animals the world over.
Firemen's party ends in blaze
11 January 2006
TOKYO: 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-storey, 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
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