Traumatic call-out for local firefighter
BY ALEX TIGANI
For three years, Megan Worth has been serving the Singleton 444 Fire and Rescue brigade with the upmost professionalism.
More often than not, she has busted the myth that firefighters’ roles are to simply fight fires while liaising with residents and motorists at each scene.
However, her world went full circle on the morning of Monday, October 17 when attending a house fire at Hunterview.
This house was hers.
“I didn’t know it was my house until I turned up to the front,” an emotional Megan told The Hunter River Times.
“Captain Bruce (Ambrose) was on the truck in the back seat, and I rocked up hoping it wasn’t my house.
“When I saw it was my house I looked at Bruce and he said, ‘don’t even worry about it, just go’.
“I didn’t have to do anything, I just stood there and watched my house burn.”
Police continue to investigate the fire including the possibility it may have been caused from overheating Milwaukee batteries left on the charger in the garage.
Though her tenants were able to escape unscathed she admits life has not been the same since that traumatic morning.
“We had standbys on, I asked where we are going and they say Hunterview,” she recalled.
“We pulled up and it was just tears, I couldn’t breathe, excruciating meltdown and I couldn’t talk.”
As smoke alarms echoed throughout Hobden Street, she was joined by her partner who rushed to the scene from their Singleton Heights’ home.
“I saw my partner running to comfort me, so I yelled to the cop, ‘pale legs, blue shorts, he’s mine’,” she added.
“He knows the drill, the pagers go off and we rush to go out and save someone or their property or their pets.
“But to rock up and it be your own home is traumatising.”
She has since thanked her brigade, work and Peter Dunn Real Estate for their ongoing support since the incident and has continued to keep in touch with her tenants who have lost their priceless possessions.