Well I Guess It Had To Happen,

sooner or later,

a fire station that burnt down, a volunteer fire station in the Scharrel district of Saterland, North Rhine-Westphalia burned to the ground early on Saturday morning, as firefighters arrived on the scene too late to save it, a neighbour alerted the emergency services after spotting the flames just after 2.40am, according to the NWZ regional news portal, but by the time the volunteer fire fighters arrived at their station, which was just five years old, the blaze had already consumed the building, making it impossible for them to enter,

fire stations catching fire has of course happened before, I have pasted this from the article as it tells the story far more eloquently than I could, (unfortunately the video link does not work),


just this year, for instance, a firefighter in Japan, in haste, left the stove on while cooking dinner in the firehouse on the way out to fight a blaze. Ten fire trucks from other, nearby stations, had to put out the firehouse fire. Perhaps the guilty fireman should consider ordering-in for dinner from now on? also this year, a fire broke out in a Capitol Heights, Maryland fire station. This one started in a fire truck engine. When an initial automatic fire alarm was sounded, volunteer firefighters on duty at the time foolishly cancelled it. Five minutes later, they were on the phone with dispatch requesting backup. Eight minutes after that, firefighters from a nearby station were on the scene, putting out the blaze, 


in Maryland (Largo, to be exact), even more recently (May 19th, to be exact), the Bladensburg fire station caught fire when wiring inside the ladder truck went up in smoke. There were two fire station fires in Illinois not too long ago, as well. In Elwood on August 26,1995, a fire station caught fire and burned to the ground. And in Fillmore, a tiny community southeast of Springfield, another fire station caught fire and burned to the ground,


more recently, Pennsylvania had a lulu of its own. On July 7th, the Strattanville Volunteer Fire Department was alerted to a roof fire at its own station. The cause? Arson! When the two guys who started the fire were caught and brought into the police station, one of them said he lit his boxer shorts on fire and then threw them onto the roof of the fire station, adding that he "thought it would be funny" if the fire station caught fire, so it seems to happen more often than I would have thought,

but this video link does work, continuing with emergency services, I thought this was a sad reflection on today's youth who had a seriously bad education, in the olden days, crooks used to "case" joints, staking out a place and detailing all the intricacies before attempting to rob the business, but look at these two young criminals in Port St. Lucie, Florida, who proved that tradition is dead, the would-be robbers confidently entered the lobby of a business, hid their hands in their jackets like guns, and demanded money from the woman at the front desk, if only they had been taught to read, there would have seen two words outside the place there were going to rob - Police Station, really you could not make it up!