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Fire crews put out a small brush fire this afternoon. A fire service spokesman said: “The fire service responded with appliances from the Hamilton Station, the Port Royal Station and a total of nine firefighters.” The incident happened in the Hillvie...

Firefighters rushed to the airport yesterday after a report of smoke in a private jet in the skies off the island. A spokesman for the fire service said they received a call just after 1.30pm about smoke in the cabin of an aircraft ten miles out from...

A man suffered a broken leg, cuts to his arm and stomach injuries yesterday after a trailer load of metal construction equipment fell on him. The victim, 36, was trapped underneath metal hollow ribs at about 9am in Wellington Slip Road, St George’s. ...

A 31-year-old man who died after he fell off the dockside in Hamilton this week has been named by police. Kristian Baboolal, 31, a Canadian national who worked for the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, hit his head on the stern of the party boat Zara b...

Firefighters kitted out in protective suits dealt with a hazardous materials spill at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital yesterday. Acting Sergeant Ivan Dyer said that crews responded to a call about a spillage of formalin, a toxic water solution of f...

The head of the firefighters’ union said yesterday that ageing equipment and a lack of staff had helped spark a rejection of government cost-cutting proposals forced by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nakia Pearson, the president of the...

One of a pair of hero firefighters who hauled two men out of a water tank after they were rendered unconscious by fumes relived the rescue yesterday. Lionel Furbert, a veteran firefighter and EMT, was the first to go down into the tank after the fir...

Two men were rescued by firefighters after they were overcome by fumes while cleaning a water tank. Firefighters wearing breathing gear pulled the unconscious pair from the tank and also removed the cleaning product that caused the problem. The men w...

Firefighters today responded to an alarm at the Belco power plant. Fire crews reported finding smoke in a switching room at the plant on Pembroke’s Serpentine Road, but no fire. It was discovered that a faulty pull station had activated and extinguis...

The owner of a house suffered minor burns tonight after a fire broke out at their home. Firefighters tackled the blaze at the house, on Derwent Lane, Devonshire, at about 6.20pm. They found smoke and flames coming from one side of the single storey h...

Firefighters tackled a blaze in a car in Pembroke. The vehicle was fully alight, near to a two-storey home, when a fire truck arrived at the scene shortly before 11.50pm on Thursday. A Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “Firefighters qui...

Businesses hoping to reopen in the second phase of the island’s return to normality were asked to send any requests for information about maximum occupancy levels by e-mail. A plea from the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service came after David Burt, the P...