The Nordheim firefighters in Alsace take their Saint John's Eve bonfires very seriously. Every year, the firefighters build spectacular effigies.

The Alsace village will celebrate Saint John's Eve on Saturday 29 June and have gone all out, as they do every year.

The municipality's firefighters have impressed yet again by building an effigy of the Star Wars droid R2-D2 for this year's bonfire.

The firefighters certainly have an impressive list of accomplishments when it comes to effigies.

In past years, they have set fire to an Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, a dinosaur, a windmill, a propeller plane, a fortress, an Aztec temple, and even a Sphinx.