General News
21 October, 2024
Fuel burns in shed fire
FIRE brigade volunteers have been praised for stopping the spread of a shed fire that destroyed up to 30,000 litres of fuel. Corian Park Earthmoving’s Drew Chislett said the mature and methodical approach of volunteers from five brigades at the...
FIRE brigade volunteers have been praised for stopping the spread of a shed fire that destroyed up to 30,000 litres of fuel.
Corian Park Earthmoving’s Drew Chislett said the mature and methodical approach of volunteers from five brigades at the Durham Ox fire on Saturday evening had shown the high skills of volunteers.
“I believe a (fuel) transfer pump may have ignited in part of the shed and while we lost fuel - there was capacity in storage containers for 30,000 litres - it was fortunate no major equipment was being stored in that part of the shed,” Mr Chislett said.
“There would have been a header in there to be serviced but the battery had gone flat the previous day, so we left it in another shed.”
Mr Chislett said the fire’s intensity had melted one wall of the shed.
Pyramid Hill, Loddon Vale, Boort, Yando and Yarrawalla brigades attended the fire.
“The leadership of (Pyramid Hill captain) Steve Mann was superb as was help from our neighbour Andrew Frost,” Mr Chislett said.