Fire At Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK), Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland 1997

Another piece of history scanned into my computer from some old photos. If I'm honest, its a fire right NEXT to Prestwick Airport, but the boys from the airport fire station were first on the scene, so it's near enough.

This was about the time I got "serious" about my photography hobby, and started carrying my Minolta X300 and lenses everywhere with me. Right place right time I guess.

I initially thought the smoke was something else, but my friend pointed out that the tractor was, in fact on fire! Funniest part of the day was the tractor driver, the large man in the white T-shirt in the photos, who looked at me as I was taking photos and said "saves me bailing it!"

I wonder if anybody who was at the scene (particularly the emergency services), remembers this day. I'd be interested in your comments if you were there ;-)

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[Jooles99]

This tractors on fire! Think there was also a picture of me in that lot which you didn't upload so as not alarm the viewers lol.

Good day that and somewhat more entertaining than the planes.