Parking officer acts flamin' quickly
By Rhys Chamberlain of the Otago Daily TimesOtago Daily Times·
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Save Vincent Maffey looks under the bonnet of his car with firefighters in Moray Pl yesterday. Photo / Otago Daily Times / Gregor Richardson
It seems parking officers don't just give out infringement notices. They moonlight as heroes, too.
Vincent Maffey (80) was saved by the quick thinking of a Dunedin City Council parking officer after the car he was driving caught fire yesterday.
The Dunedin man was driving in Moray Pl when flames
appeared from the underside of his 1985 Mitsubishi Mirage.
Mr Maffey said he had no idea his car was on fire until the parking officer, who declined to be identified, waved him down and put out the flames.
"He must have seen the flames coming up under the car,'' Mr Maffey said.