On a hot Saturday afternoon in  November 1994 an official burn-off at Moggs Creek got out of control, destroying one house on the west side of the creek and damaging up to twenty others. The Ocean Road was not blocked by the fire but residents feared they may not be not so lucky next time. The creek community began campaigning for an alternative crossing upstream that joined the east and west sides of the creek.

There were meetings and plans, letters and petitions, disagreements and delays. A road and bridge about five hundred metres inland was not feasible, due to two steep gullies.

Finally, in August 2000 a bridge was completed. An eleven metre footbridge. It was no fire escape but it did provide a pedestrian alternative to crossing the creek at the Great Ocean Road. For the weekenders, the retirees and the families with young children, children with the freedom to roam the bush and the beach, the bridge improved access to neighbours and became an integral part of a short walk.

It also provided the Maskell family, part of Moggs Creek since 1972, with an unexpected memorial to their father.

Ron Maskell working in his garden at Boyd Avenue Moggs Creek in the 1990's.