Firefighters rescued couple trapped in bedroom after hornets nest fell through their ceiling

A Berkshire couple had to be rescued by firefighters after a hornets nest fell through their ceiling. A crew from Slough Fire Station were called to the property in Maidenhead at 11.30pm on Tuesday night.

The weight of the nest brought it through the property's second-floor ceiling, filling the upstairs of the property with angry hornets and trapping the pair in their bedroom. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue the couple from their room.



Crew manager Martyn Sadler said he has never been called to something like this before. He described the noise as 'quite substantial' and added they 'definitely made the decision not to go up there'. "All we could see were the hornets but they were quite large," he said.

"The only other weird animal incident we have been called to was for a duck and ducklings crossing the road and one of the ducklings fell down a drain." A female resident was in the bathroom when the ceiling came down and ran into the bedroom.