Quick-thinking teenagers praised for putting out fire
Two teenagers who used buckets to put out a brush fire in Pembroke have been praised for their actions by the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service.Fire Service spokesman Lt Leonard Davis said the service received a report of a fire in the Berkeley Road area at around 3.30pm on Thursday.However when officers arrived on the scene they found that two 14-year-olds, D’Undre Seymour and Benjamin Furqan, had already extinguished the blaze.Lt Davis said: “What excited the members of the Fire Service was the fact that the individuals who extinguished the fire were both aged 14.“They noticed the fire starting and ran to a nearby house to retrieve buckets of water to extinguish the fire. If they had not reacted so quickly, this fire could have easily started to burn out of control.”Sergeant Robert Fox praised the teenagers for their effort, saying: “We are always so quick to recognise when young men in our community are doing wrong but rarely acknowledge the ones that do something positive.“D’Undre Seymour and Benjamin Furqan did a positive deed and the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service would sincerely like to say ‘thank you’ to these young men”.