OK, that's the LAST time we let Harold light the Christmas pudding
Essex Fire and Rescue Service commented the tortoise looked ‘angry’ after the lucky escape The reptile knocked over a heat lamp onto his bedding, which then caught alight.
Neighbours heard the smoke alarm sounding in the property near Uttlesford, Essex, and alerted firefighters. They rushed to the scene and found a fire in one of the rooms and smoke filling the rest of the house.Afterwards Essex Fire and Rescue Service posted a picture of the unnamed tortoise, who appeared entirely unimpressed despite being saved.‘After he set his bedding alight his neighbour heard the smoke alarm and called us.
‘Our on-call crews left their families to go and extinguish the fire and gave him a very merry Christmas.’
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