By Isobel Williams

A group of friends have taken flame-grilled a little too literally with their quirky new side hustle – a burger van in a fire engine.

Niall Seymour, 35, Lee Syndercombe, 37, and Anne-Lise Costerg, 34, spent 20 months and £40k converting the vehicle.

They hit upon the idea after attending festivals and eating from food vans.

The trio found the former Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service truck on Facebook Marketplace and paid £6,000 in September 2023.

They then started trading in May of this year, and say business is going well so far.

Niall, from Bexley, southeast London, said: “We had an idea that we wanted to do a food truck based on a fire engine.

“From going to festivals, we saw that the burger vans and food trucks that are based on an interesting vehicle tend

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