Where's the marshmellows?

Driving along one sunny afternoon in the trusty St John vehicle, my partner and I noticed a strange sight before us; a burning vehicle.

Sensing that something was off with this sight, we decided to pull over and check what was going on. Luckily the good folk from MFB were already on scene and doing their thing - but interesting was the fact that we were the only medical team there... The vehicle was very much aflame and there seemed to be some kind of high-temperature fire happening underneath the vehicle, because even after half an hour of absolutely soaking the underside of the vehicle in water and chemicals the vehicle was still merrily burning away.

And did I mention we were the only medical crew there?

We had done the compulsory 'Hi, what's happening?' with MFB, checked out the 'occupants' of the vehicle who were fine and had no smoke inhalation and spent the rest of the time sitting on the side of the road hoping it didn't all go pear shaped.

Fortunately for everyone involved, it didn't, and before long we were able to go again on our merry way. MAS had been held up at a major event for the day and so in the end we, who just happening to be driving past, were all that was available. MFB were very grateful for us stopping I think, and although we all knew fairly quickly we weren't needed, there was always that 'just in case' that made us stick around.

After all, cars and fuel tanks have known to possess a volatile relationship...


All in all a lazy job but with some pretty neat visuals to go along with it - I was happy nobody was hurt, sad that two nice people who had only recently come to Australia had lost their car and wishing that I had brought some marshmellows.

All in a days work ;)