Chicken drumsticks, not the ones pictured, were subject of a firefighters' call out overnight. Photo / File
Chicken drumsticks, not the ones pictured, were subject of a firefighters' call out overnight. Photo / File
Bay of Plenty firefighters had a more relaxed night responding to a bad chef and a child in a tree.
In Tauranga, Fire and Emergency New Zealand were called to a Bellevue address at 8.15pm to find a someone had cooked their chicken drumsticks for too long.
A media spokeswomansaid the crew was on site for 10 minutes and found no fire, just a smokey chook.
The stereotypical image of a firefighter helping a cat out a tree was taken a step further when a Kawerau crew was called to help a child out of a tree.
The spokeswoman was unsure of the age of the child or how high the tree was.
