Wow, Tyabb had a bad, bad day on Sunday!

For anyone that is interested, under the cut are some shots taken by the very talented Keith Pakenham of Tyabb CFA's gnarly day on Sunday. At 9am a lady drove right through the safetty lights, bells, whisteles and barriers at a level crossing just as a V-Line was going through. For my OS friends, V-line is a train service that rockets through the country side here. It moves VERY fast, carrying both people and trade-goods, tho rarely at the same time. Luckily no one in the train was hurt. Unfortunatly the lady in the vehicle died instantly, as you would imagine. This is the sort of scene FFs hate yet can not help but be fascinated at. It's so rare (THANK GOD!) that to the detached professional side of us, it's an incredible learning op. While this extraction was takling place, an unltra-light air craft in a near by paddock got into trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing. The pilot was totally unharmed and was walking away from his downed craft as CFA and SES arrived. Damage to the craft was minimal. GOOD FLYING! Keith was able to attend both incidents (don't ask me how, he normaly only travels with Dandenong Rescue who were not there) and take some amazing shots. I've put the best ones under the cut. THERE IS NO NASTY STUFF UNDER THE CUT. No blood, guts or othe distressing items are included, no one needs to see that. They are fascinating tho, esp the train ones.

( All photo credits to Keith, I wasn't even here )