Bats first to flee as M1 tanker fire threatened homes, lives

Glen Humphries
Angela Thompson
Updated January 4 2019 - 6:53pm, first published 5:30pm

With her earbuds in, a meditation track playing, Gail Keogh didn’t so much hear the first explosions as feel them, as a fully laden fuel tanker began its transformation from everyday road feature to white knuckle inferno, only about 200 metres from her Geards Place, West Wollongong front door. 

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

Angela Thompson

Angela Thompson

Journalist

Proudly Illawarra Mercury since 2008; these days covering crime and justice issues. UOW alum. Thrilled by the chase and sobered by some of the things I see and hear when I stand still - sometimes in the same day. ang.thompson@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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