{"id":3022,"date":"2025-07-17T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/tortoise-caused-a-fire-inside-a-london-flat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:23:16","slug":"tortoise-caused-a-fire-inside-a-london-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/tortoise-caused-a-fire-inside-a-london-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise caused a fire inside a London flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-17 12:23:13<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A tortoise caused a fire inside a London flat.<BR><br \/>\nThe reptile knocked over the heat lamp, which landed in hay in his aquarium.<BR><br \/>\nThe London Fire Brigade was alerted about the fire at 11.40am. <BR><br \/>\nFirefighters from Mitcham, Wimbledon, Tooting and Wallington Fire Stations attended the scene at a maisonette on the fourth floor of a block of flats, and found small flames in one room.<BR><br \/>\nThe crew had the fire under control at 12.22pm.<BR><br \/>\nThey found and rescued the tortoise, as well as a dog who was hiding underneath the stairs.<BR><br \/>\nThey safely returned the animals back to their owners.<BR><br \/>\nA London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: &#8220;It is really important that heat lamps are secured properly to prevent them from being accidentally knocked over. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They are usually positioned near hay or sawdust, which are both highly flammable materials. When they are not in use, make sure they are switched off to avoid overheating.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-17 12:23:13 A tortoise caused a fire inside a London flat. The reptile knocked over the heat lamp, which landed in hay in his aquarium. The London Fire Brigade was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}