Cool Change Hits Carrum Life Saving Club Hard

Surveying the damage from the wall collapse

As Melbourne sweltered on Sunday afternoon (31/01/201) the volunteers at the Carrum Life Saving Club had no idea just how of the devastation the expected cool change was about to deliver.

The cool change brought down more than just the temperature in Carrum

The footpath between the beach and the carpark following the collapse

As the wind swung around from the North to a Southerly, a gust of wind rattled windows and then demolished the entire side wall of the building bringing down rubble onto a footpath leading from the beach to the carpark.

Truly a room with a view

The wall collapsed onto a young girl on the footpath below as she was leaving the beach just after the cool change hit.

The rubble that collapsed onto the footpath below

CFA units from Patterson River and Ambulance Paramedics released the girl who was treated at the scene before being transported to hospital but amazingly it would appear that her injuries were only slight.

Inspecting the damage

Propping up the roof that had dropped following the wall collapse

Chelsea SES and the City of Kingston building Inspector then set about inspecting the damage and begin the task of making the building safe including propping up the roof of the building which was very unstable.