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A wife and husband say they are lucky to be alive after lightning hit their house blowing out a ceiling, cracking a chimney, smashing a glass fire guard and causing electrical explosions. Lorna and Paul Singh were in their house on Rockywold Drive in...

Staff have returned to the General Wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after it was evacuated for an hour yesterday afternoon. Inpatients did not have to leave the building. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said there had been a thorough c...

A driver trapped in his car by live electrical wires described fearing for his life as he and his passenger spent several minutes waiting for rescue. Bus driver Mark Anderson saw his life flash before his eyes after an electric pole was snagged by a ...

Firefighters extinguished a car fire on Roberts Avenue, Devonshire last night. A Fire Service spokesman said the Service received a report at 10.36pm that was care was engulfed in flames and one appliance from Hamilton Station responded with four f...

Fire crews responded to more than 700 calls over March and April, it was revealed yesterday. March was the busiest of the two months, when Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service staff answered 376 calls. A total of 187 were medical emergencies – including roa...

A section of road in Smith’s Parish was closed last night after a serious crash. Details of the crash on Middle Road have yet to be provided. But The Royal Gazette understands a motorcyclist suffered serious injuries when his machine was in collisio...

Children along Bandroom Lane were among onlookers this evening as the playground at Pig’s Field Park in Pembroke went up in smoke. It took six firefighters and two trucks to quell the blaze, centred on playground equipment at the popular open space i...

Fireifighters were last night called to put out a blaze in a kitchen at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in Devonshire. Two vehicles and eight firefighters responded to the 8.49pm call after flames and smoke were seen coming out of the kitchen at...

A derelict property in Pembroke has been extensively damaged in a fire in the early hours of this morning. Police said the fire is being treated as “suspicious” and have not ruled out that it may be connected to a recent spate of fires in Pembroke a...

The island’s emergency services are plagued by staff shortages, poor buildings and ageing equipment, the national security minister said yesterday. Renee Ming said that overtime pay for police, fire and prison officers was necessary because of staff ...

Police are appealing for witnesses to this morning’s fire in which a car and five motorcycles were destroyed. Firefighters tackled the blaze on Rambling Lane, Pembroke, at around 4.30am, and were able to bring the fire under control before flames spr...

Firefighters were called out to Clearwater, in St David’s, over the weekend to put out a trash can fire. “We did have a fire at at 3.15pm and the fire service responded with one appliance from Clearwater station and four firefighters. The fire was e...