‘This incident shows just how important it is to have smoke alarms on every level of your home,’ says a fire station manager.
An “angry” looking tortoise has been rescued from a house fire after setting the place ablaze.
The 45-year-old reptile knocked a heat lamp onto his bedding, which caught alight. It filled the house near Uttlesford in Essex with smoke on Christmas Day around 4:50pm. Neighbours heard the fire alarm and called 999, scrambling firefighters.
They put the blaze out and rescued the unnamed shell-dweller, which Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said “might look angry”.
Gary Wain, watch manager at Great Dunmow Fire Station, said: “This incident shows just how important it is to have smoke alarms on every level of your home.
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