Rescued... for the oven Out of the frying pan, into the… oven. A flock of turkeys was rescued from a barn fire by officers from Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue this week. A pre-Christmas rescue which prolonged the birds' life by, ooh, about two days. Talking turkey: Farm birds had a ‘lucky escape'.(Pic: Shutterstock/Tentman/View Portfolio.) But while Diary readers may think the intervention pointless, given the season, one member of The MJ team has pointed out that people ‘far prefer an oven-ready to a char-grilled bird'. Quite.