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National security minister Wayne Caines helped deliver the fire safety message to schoolchildren today. Fire Safety Awareness Week was launched at the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service headquarters on King Street, Hamilton. Youngsters from Prospect Pri...

A total of eight firefighters have been confirmed as lieutenants at a special ceremony. The event celebrated the men and women who retained their positions at the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Services after a year in the role. Lieutenant Russann Francis, ...

Chris, there is a fire at the house!” Words no man or woman wants to hear from their spouse or significant other. On July 2, there was a minor fire at my wife’s salon. No fire is minor, but this was minor compared with what might have happened. A se...

New breathing apparatus for firefighters to make sure they can carry out their job safely is to be bought, a union leader has said. Allan Wilkinson, the Fire Service Association president, explained that the public faced losing out if ageing equipmen...

A deal has been signed for the purchase of a ladder truck to replace the fire service’s 21-year-old Bronto. The ageing vehicle was plagued with electrical issues that left it out of action during the Front Street blaze in 2016. Firefighters were told...

A 48-year-old man was injured in an industrial accident in the City of Hamilton yesterday morning. Police said a man was refuelling a power washer on Church Street, near Washington Lane, when fuel spilt and caught fire. Two men on the lift were unin...

A motorcycle caught fire on North Shore Road on Friday. Police and firefighters attended the incident in Hamilton Parish, near the junction with Radnor Road, at about 2.15pm. The road was closed while firefighters put out the blaze and cleared the ar...

No injuries have been reported after an apartment fire in Warwick this afternoon. The Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service responded to a 911 call for the fire on Crown Lane at about 3.30pm. A spokesman for BFRS said that firefighters arrived to find h...

There was a structural fire in Somerset in the early hours of this morning. At about 3.15am, Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service received the call and on arrival at an Acadia Lane residence, firefighters noticed flames coming from a downstairs laundry. T...

A Devonshire blaze was quickly extinguished by Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service this afternoon. The small fire, which occurred at 3 Meadow Lane, was seen burning from inside of a container when firefighters arrived. Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service sai...

Schoolgirls became firefighters for the day when they toured Hamilton Fire Station yesterday. The Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service welcomed a group of 44 girls from the Bermuda High School, aged from 11 to 14, and taught them how to tackle fires and p...

Lance Haynes got a baptism of fire as he helped battle one of the largest blazes in recent times only months into the job. Now he is the 2018 Firefighter of the Year, only two years after he and colleagues tackled the major fire that destroyed a buil...