Thanks Brad,
We were about 20m away in the river and looked up to see the whole thing well alight.
It was beyond the point of saving anything, there were tinned cans of food, aerosol cans butane cartridges exploding and a full 9kg gas bottle, which was on at a half turn connected to a cooker that was off. Lucky the bottle would have exploded.. It was like a massive blow torch until it ran out.. Scary stuff.. It was not the cause of the fire and was the last thing to go off...
We had bought the trailer with a battery set in the tool box on the front drawer bar. It ran 2 12 volt plugs and a led strip light under trailer.. Obviously a wire must of severed somewhere and touched metal, shorting out under bed!
It was just lucky it didnt happen whilst sleeping in it.
We had only taken it away for 5 nights a month before, shame it was a good camper.
Moral of story have an electrician check out the wiring and ensure no wires are exposed to metals.
We think that maybe going over rough road, something in trailer must have severed wire.
The fireman in attendance confirmed it was definately the battery the cause.
Lost all our camp gear, however to prospecting gear was with us so we were happy about that.
And we are here to tell the tale...