Someone must have left the iron(y) on.
A fire station in Germany, a state-of-the-art, multi-million dollar fire station, along with ten fire trucks, burned to the ground this week ... because they hadn't installed fire alarms.
The new fire station, in Stadtallendorf, was hailed by Oberhessische Presse, the town's local newspaper, as a "modern, state-of-the-art" building when it opened last year.
But months later, Stadtallendorf firefighters, and others in the region, found themselves in the embarrassing situation of trying to put out a blaze at their own premises.
They never installed fire alarms because, technically, they were classified as a storage facility, meaning there were no regulations to require fire alarms like there would be at a residence or a place of business.
But, dudes, you're the fire department. It's "state-of-the-art." Can't you go above and beyond?
'It is a nightmare for a firefighter. No one wants to have to extinguish his own fire station,' Lars Schafer, the district fire inspector, told reporters after firefighters failed to bring the blaze under control ...
This cost the station, obviously, millions in damages. They lost the whole building and ten trucks inside.
While there hasn't been an official statement about the source of the blaze, it appears as though a lithium ion battery charger started the inferno.
The local firefighters couldn't put it out, and they had to call in backup from nearby stations in what was, I promise you, the most sheepish emergency fire call in history.
Some 170 firefighters, including local volunteers, were brought in to tackle the blaze, which involved flames that climbed as high as 10 metres, according to witnesses.
I know these dudes are serious and took their fire brigade jobs seriously while they were fighting the inferno ... but you also have to know that the jokes were rolling on the way to and from the blaze.
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