Hungarian voluntary firefighters were fined for parking violations while saving people from fire in the country's southern city of Kaposvar, local radio said on Thursday.
The fire broke out in an office building in downtown Kaposvar. Voluntary firefighting detachments arrived at the site to join other firemen in extinguishing the blaze.
While the volunteers were busy putting the fire out and saving people, parking control officials attached parking tickets to the windshields of their cars for parking in non-designated zones.
The radio report said the cars had identification tags showing they were firefighters.
The public condemned the parking control officials, however, the local parking control service's chief said his subordinates had no right to decide which car owners should be ticketed and which should not.
Eventually the fines were cancelled due to wide public protests.
BUDAPEST, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
