Tom Ridge should be issuing an alert for these any time now.

The bunny was hiding in a stack of branches which were about to be turned into a bonfire at Devizes Cricket Club in Wiltshire.

Moments after the stack was doused in paraffin by groundsmen and set alight the startled animal ran from the bonfire with its tail alight.

Regrettably for the 150-year-old cricket club, this particular rabbit was determined to go down in a blaze of glory.

It dashed into the groundsmen’s shed some five metres away.

The two men saw the rabbit run off – but not where it went. Half-an-hour later the shed was on fire.

Eleven firefighters were unable to save the 12-metre long building or the equipment inside and the blaze caused damage estimated at £60,000.

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