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Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago. Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze. “It was the early hou...

Firefighters tackled a fire in a garden shed on Sunday night. A fire service spokesman said: “On arrival, fire crews found a shed approximately 12 feet by 12 feet fully engulfed in fire. “Fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze. The cause of the f...

Two fires were tackled by police early on Saturday, including one blaze outside a Warwick residence. Police and the fire service were called to the scene of a motorcycle on fire at 4.25am on Curving Avenue in Pembroke. They extinguished the fire and ...

Firefighters said Bermuda was temporarily left without fire coverage yesterday after one fire station was closed and firefighters from the two remaining stations responded to a blaze. Three fire trucks and eight firefighters quickly extinguished the ...

Firefighters put out a blaze at a Hamilton Parish chicken coop this morning after receiving reports of a brush fire. A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call about the fire in the Crawl Hill area at 9.38am. The spok...

Firefighters rushed to the Walker Arcade in Hamilton yesterday morning in response to reports of smoke coming from the building. A spokesman for the service said that when officers arrived at the Reid Street side of the property, they did not find a ...

The owners of a farm hit by a major fire said they were “optimistic” the business would bounce back. Richard Bascome, the general manager at Westover Farm in Sandys, said the building that housed the butcher’s shop and staff housing had suffered the ...

A West End farm suffered a major blow this morning after fire gutted its butcher’s shop. The blaze also destroyed the island’s only large-animal slaughterhouse. Westover Farm in Sandys, operated by the Bascome family for decades, said it depended on ...

The fire service can handle major emergencies despite staff shortages, the national security minister said yesterday. Renée Ming praised firefighters and said that Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service’s departments were fully operational, although fire prev...

Firefighters fought a motorcycle fire this morning. They received a report of the fire on Euclid Avenue in Pembroke just after 8am. The firefighters put out the fire and the cause is under investigation.

Firecrews tackled a brushfire at a house in Smith’s last night. The flames destroyed an area of grass and several bushes in the grounds of a house in Harrington Sound Road. Dylan Rance, 16, who lives at the house with his mother, said he was in his r...

A Rastafarian artist yesterday vowed to rebuild his distinctive red, gold and green VW Beetle after it was wrecked by fire. Perry Butterfield’s “Lion Bug”, a familiar sight on the roads across the island for years, was gutted in a blaze thought to ha...