'You beat us at cricket, and now you're trying to drown us': Australian tourists rescued from London Duck boat fire tell of trauma - London - News - London Evening Standard

'You beat us at cricket, and now you're trying to drown us': Australian tourists rescued from London Duck boat fire tell of trauma - London - News - London Evening Standard

Thirty people were rescued from the fire which tore through the London Duck Tours vessel on the River Thames close to Lambeth Bridge yesterday afternoon. Australian Rod Wood says at first he thought the smoke was steam as the front of the craft had been splashed by the wake from another boat ... The 65-year-old said ... His daughter Elissa Wood, 31, from Kennington, said. “It was frightening because the flames were getting quite high