London's Fire Engine Rollover at Waterloo. Photos By Alex Albion. Story By Uncle Monty.

London's Fire Engine Rollover.

Photos By Alex Albion.

Story By Uncle Monty.
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Luckily, London's fire engine rollover or flipover

today at Waterloo's IMAX roundabout didn't ig-

nite a dangerous fire or even worse an explosion

at such an impact of some five tonnes of sheer

steel and rivetted metal along with lots of petrol

or gaseline inside the three or four large gas

tanks that helps power the road movement

of such a fearless red fire brigrade truck.

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This is one of those stories that is best told

by photos rather than by any written words

of mine. So I'll write little more here about it

other than to say all the buses and bendies

going south on Waterloo Bridge were stop-

ped and then diverted to other long and

roundabout routes to get to Waterloo

via other directions and streets.

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The damage to the fire engine will run into

many, many, thousands of dollars to repair,

let alone the cost of manpower and recovery

of the fire engine will add many more thous-

ands upon thousands of dollars from the

taxpayers' purse.

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The online edition of this afternoon's issue

of The London Evening Standard made no

report or photo or even a mention of the

London Fire Brigrade engine rollover at

Waterloo. I was unable to find out if any

of the firemen themselves inside the

fire truck at the rollover were injured or

even perhaps killed by such a freakish

accident. I assume the driver came too

fast, and in a hurry, at the roundabout

and took his steering wheel too sharp

and the result was an immediate flip of

the fire engine itself that ended with an

unstoppable and terrifying rollover.
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So let me just have you now look at the

photos below of the accident scene that

I took and some actual views of the roll-

over of the engine or truck while under-

going on the spot steps to upright it fully

for final recovery to where ever they

then take such to be repaired or salvaged.
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It was certainly a sad case, ironically, of need-

ing to rescue the fire rescuers at the rollover.
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Your's, Uncle Monty.

+Wulfrun, 2oo9.
...
My new periodic photo feature called

"Vendors-on-the-Strand," starts now with

the very likable Big Issue vendor Calvin.
His pitch is on London's famous Strand and

it's wide and busy thoroughfare at outside

Somerset House. Lookout for him and be

very nice to him and buy a copy of the

latest Big Issue directly from Calvin

himself. You'll be really glad you did!!

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Calvin, V949.

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Thanks to Calvin I wouldn't have known about

the rollover at Waterloo without him telling me

when he did. And so moments before I started

to walk across Waterloo Bridge to photograph

the accident scene, I took two quick photoshots

of Calvin at his permanent pitch. He said he

was doing okay today! That's

gooooooood for him, too!!

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