26 December 2010

Christmas Day was relatively quiet for Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service, with the control room receiving 34 calls. The average number of daily calls so far this year is 47.

Most of yesterday's calls came in the 12 hours between 9am and 9pm and more than half were false alarms.

There were four chimney fires during the day and three kitchen fires, including one involving a turkey and one a Christmas pudding.

All 20 fire stations were operating as normal. Firefighters from nine of them - Aylesbury, Bletchley, Broughton, Gerrards Cross, Great Holm, Great Missenden, High Wycombe, Marlow and Princes Risborough - were called out during the day.

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