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Emergency services in the East End have been hindered by a lack of staff for years, firefighters claimed yesterday. The Clearwater Fire Station in St David’s has been tasked with handling medical and fire emergencies for the past six years, but a fir...

A nine-year-old girl was yesterday hailed a hero after she rescued her drowning father from a swimming pool. Zoe Oduntan was swimming in the pool with her father, Richard and brother, Eli, when Mr Oduntan got into difficulties and sank to the bottom....

A dispute between firefighters and the service’s management has been referred to arbitration after the two sides failed to reach agreement. It is understood key factors in the stand-off included concerns about safety, equipment and working conditions...

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 ...

Emergency services carried out a major simulated air crash exercise near the airport yesterday. The scenario involved a private plane that overshot the runway, smashed through a perimeter fence and crashed in Annie’s Bay, near Clearwater Beach in St ...

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...

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...