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