Christmas Eve sees record low number of house fires

Firefighters extinguished 16 house fires across the country on Christmas Eve which is the lowest number in 17 years, a spokeswoman for the country’s fire brigade said on Tuesday. Two people suffered minor injuries when a Christmas tree caught fire in a village outside Prague. However, a fire which broke out at a farm near Havlíčkův Brod in central Czech Republic on Tuesday morning killed 1,400 pigs.

Author: Jan Richter