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Fireball forces footy star and girlfriend to run for their lives
Jul 3, 2025
Port star Brandon Zerk-Thatcher caught up in blaze
Occurred in Adelaide around 2am on Thursday
AFL star Brandon Zerk-Thatcher and his girlfriend had to flee for their lives when a suspicious fire threatened to engulf his Adelaide home early on Thursday morning.
The Port Adelaide player got a rude awakening at around 2am when an Audi parked in the driveway next to his Glenelg home burst into flames, which quickly spread to the property.
Zerk-Thatcher and his partner Abbey Whitfield only had enough time to grab their two kittens as they ran to safety.
'I got woken up to my partner waking me up. There were a few loud bangs, she said there was a fire ... looked out the window and sure enough, the neighbour's car was on fire,' the Power star told Seven.
'It was pretty quick, by the time we opened the door it just got to our house so we got our cats and ran out of there.
'[It] was lucky we got out, we just watched from across the road, hoping the fire brigade would get here.
'[It] was actually good timing, otherwise our side would have got chopped up a bit more.
'When my partner woke me up it was the first thing she said, 'grab the cats'.
'It was pretty scary, definitely makes you question if it's safe to live here.
'There was a jerrycan left here so I dare say it was a bit suspicious.'
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