Seth Rance helps put out fire in Wairarapa pub

When we speak of cricketers putting out fires, it's usually in the context of a batsman playing a rearguard innings. Not so in the case of the New Zealand fast bowler Seth Rance, who is a literal firefighter.

On Monday, Rance, who is a station officer with the Greytown Fire Brigade, helped extinguish a blaze that threatened to engulf the White Swan Hotel, a pub in the rural town of Greytown in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. Crews from across Wairarapa, with Rance among them, arrived on the scene after the pub's roof caught fire.

"The origin of the fire was in the southern end of the building," Rance told reporters. "There's a little bit of structural and water damage but it appears to have been caught in time. It's fortunate we got the call nice and early."

Rance, who has played two ODIs and four T20Is since his international debut last year, isn't the first New Zealand quick with a day job in the uniformed services - Shane Bond also had a parallel career as a policeman.