FIREFIGHTERS were called in to make a flag pole safe that had partially come out of the ground.
The fire service received the call-out at 8.12pm last night to reports of the flag pole hanging over a road, pavement and a parked car in Whitby.
Crews used a nine metre ladder to remove the flag pole.
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