Married life for Eagles veteran Andrew Gaff obtained off to a scorching begin after his marriage ceremony friends needed to be evacuated as a raging bushfire razed a well-liked City Beach park.
The West Australian understands Gaff and his associate, Emma Van Woerden, stated their vows on the Quarry Amphitheatre on Sunday within the hours earlier than a hearth began at Bold Park about 9pm.
Guests are understood to have been shortly ushered out of the venue because the blaze shortly took maintain.
A witness described seeing friends leaving in a taxi — one among them holding an uncut marriage ceremony cake.
Sources say the attendees needed to relocate to Elliot Yeo’s pub, the Broken Hill Hotel.
West Coast teammate Jack Darling and spouse Courtney had been additionally among the many friends, whereas premiership Eagle Scott Lycett additionally attended.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services issued a “watch and act” alert at about 10.30pm on Sunday after the fireplace began in Bold Park.
Residents in components of City Beach, Floreat and Mt Claremont had been warned there was a attainable menace to lives and houses and “conditions were changing”.
The fireplace was contained and managed by 10am on Monday.
Gaff, 31, had a turbulent yr with the Eagles, averaging solely 20 disposals in 23 video games — his lowest return since 2013.
The two-time All-Australian virtually discovered himself dropped after recording solely six disposals in opposition to Brisbane in spherical 17, his lowest disposal output in a sport since beginning instead within the early video games of his first-year marketing campaign in 2011.
Gaff was handed a lifeline when he was named because the sub in opposition to Richmond the next week and he completed with 24 disposals after approaching early for the injured Reuben Ginbey.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
