PHOTO: TRACEY ROXBURGH
Queenstown Volunteer Fire Brigade Deputy Chief Fire Officer Andrew Barry said the station was called about a bonfire lit at Moke Lake about 8pm. However, when one of the two trucks responding pulled to the left on the narrow gravel road to let another vehicle past, the road subsided.
The truck, which weighed about 10 tonne, was stuck on its axle. Mr Barry said crews stayed at the scene until about 1.30am trying to get the truck out before deciding to leave it overnight, in the care of a security guard.
Just after 9.30am a crew from Jones Contracting returned to the scene with a JCB and an excavator to help lift the truck back on to the road, a job which took about 20 minutes.
Mr Barry said the first appliance attended the bonfire.
