By Brendan Rees
Exhausted firefighters tackling the Bunyip State Park blaze last week received a welcome sight of icy-poles – but in a delivery van not quite what they expected.
Neither snags nor burgers were on the menu when the Brian’s Gourmet Meats van rolled up to Bunyip fire brigade and the staging area at Nar Nar Goon Football Club on Sunday 3 March.
The Lyndhurst business decided to lend a hand to the hard-working firefighters by delivering icy-poles they had purchased at Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre.
Angela Rollason of Brian’s Gourmet Meats said their employee employee Bernie Barrett came up with the idea.
“We just let Bernie use the business card, and we had a bit of a budget. She kind of went over it. Then two of the staff at Woolies actually pulled out their own purses and paid the rest,” she said.
Bernie’s daughter Tayani and and Angela’s daughter Sarah went along for the ride who said “it was nice to be able to help.”
“She basically described it was such an eye opener when they started handed out the icy-poles. The firefighters were really grateful,” Angela said.
“A lot them said to the girls they were so exhausted they couldn’t even hold an icy-pole in their hand.
“Everything that everyone has done in the community it’s really helped – it’s not just our little one per cent,” she added.
