Two pet tortoises ablaze owners house

Fording Bridge: A pair of tortoises are reported to have blazed a costly house by knocking over a heating lamp. Pals Dinky and Toby were saved from the flames by firefighters who needed breathing masks. But it will cost thousands of pounds to repair smoke-filled rooms at the house in Fording Bridge, Hants, started by one of the pair. Firefighter Pete White said that the whole house was full of smoke and there was a reasonable fire going in the room. It was a first such incident for the crew ...