It was a rude awakening for a family in Hampton Park after a car ripped through the side of their property, narrowly missing their house on Sunday 15 September.
Narre Warren State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers were called in to assist Victoria Police at the scene about 8.30am where a white vehicle had appeared to lose control and crash into the corrugated metal fence of a home in Somerville Road.
The car caused serious damage to the metal fence, but luckily there was no structural damage to the house.
Damian Burns, SES spokesman said the force from the car had torn through the metal fence like it was a sheet of paper.
Following the police investigation, the car was towed from the scene.
Mr Burns said it was clear after the car had been removed a makeshift fence was required.
“Not only did the property need to be secured for safety reasons, the family had a small deaf two year-old dog; so for reason of public safety, it was without question that we would make sure that our makeshift fence was not only secure, but puppy safe,” he said.
“Luckily some of the corrugated fencing was reusable, so we flattened out the parts where we could, and set about making the makeshift fence. As some of the concrete supports for the fence had been ripped from the ground, it was then a matter of ramming pickets and filling the large holes with bricks.
“For privacy and as an additional precaution, and to doubly ensure Noah the puppy was not going to escape, we tarped the area,” Mr Burns said.
But this was not all for the SES duty crew that day. It was then off to another job in Endeavour Hills where a limb from a large ghost gum had come crashing onto a brick fence and the nature strip of a property.
“Just by coincidence, one of our volunteers, Cameron Kirkwood, had just completed his chainsaw training the day before, so this was a timely and valuable practice exercise,” Mr Burns said.
