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A funeral car travelling to a burial in Romford was forced to make a bizarre U-turn recently when one of the passengers realised his house was on fire.<\/p>\n

To make matters even stranger, the cause of the blaze was later identified as a squirrel chewing through cables.<\/p>\n

Alby Tebbutt was in the final car of a procession heading to a funeral when he received a call informing him his garage was burning, and the fire went on to cause £20,000 worth of damage.<\/p>\n

"I said to the driver: 'My house is on fire. Go left here.' The driver said: 'I can't do that, I'm in a funeral', and I told him: 'Never mind that, turn left now,'" Mr Tebbutt is quoted as saying by the Metro.<\/p>\n

The driver eventually followed his instruction and dropped him to his house, but he arrived only to see it burning down and the blame attributed to a squirrel with a chewing habit.\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801562835-ADNFCR\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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