As April Fool's Day approaches, firefighters are urging the public to use their common sense to help avoid unnecessary calls.
A cat trapped in a gutter after jumping out of a skylight and a child with a toilet seat stuck on their head are among some of the strangest 999 calls made to the London Fire Brigade in the last three years.
As April Fool's Day approaches, firefighters urge the public to use a"little bit of common sense" to help avoid unnecessary calls. Since 2016, the Brigade has been called 659 times to people trapped in the loo, while 56 incidents have involved pets being stuck in unusual places. As well as unusual calls, firefighters have also received more than 30,000 malicious call-outs in the past five years, wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash.
Deputy Commissioner Tom George said:"No matter how strange a call may seem, we will always attend if there is a genuine emergency but you should always think carefully about how to use our resources."A number of the more unusual calls we attend involve children or animals so we would always urge Londoners to keep an eye on their youngsters or pets to ensure they aren't getting themselves into sticky situations which could be avoided.
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