Firefighters clean cars to aid the tsumani appeal 74497-39WAKE OF THE TSUNAMI: HUNGRY volunteers who have been busy packing supplies for the earthquake disaster zone have received food thanks to a generous Swindon takeaway.

Domino's Pizza in High Street, Old Town, decided to give helpers at Wroughton Airfield a boost by supplying them with £600 of free food and a promise of more to come.

The volunteers have been unloading cars, sorting donations, packing them into boxes and stacking them onto pallets, ready to be flown out to victims of the Boxing Day tsunami.

James Swift, 28, co-franchisee of the takeaway, said: "We will be helping them out until they finish. Everyone is doing their bit and the volunteers are doing a great job so we wanted to do something to keep them going."

Davide Barbato, 28, a day shift manager at Domino's, said it was a brilliant idea.

"These people are giving their services for free so we wanted to do our bit by feeding them," he said.

Jacky Smith, secretary of the Wiltshire Mercy Appeal, said: "It gave everybody the incentive to keep going as Domino's Pizza not only fed their appetites, but topped up their energy levels."

About 500 people helped out at the hangar on Saturday as donations from all over Wilt-shire and surrounding counties continue to come in.

On Sunday pallets of supplies were loaded onto lorries and transit vans and were driven London from where they will be flown out to Sri Lanka.

Swindon Mayor Peter Stoddart visited volunteers on to see the team at work.

Retained firefighters, who have also helped out at the hanger, held a car wash in Wootton Bassett on Saturday which raised £482.

Eight firemen cleaned 50 cars at a car park behind Iceland supermarket in the High Street.

Firefighter Andrew Steele, 30, who helped with the wash, said: "We normally raise about £200 when we hold car washes but this time we doubled that which shows the strength of feeling."