BS: London Fire

Subject: BS: London Fire
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:17 AM

Anyone know what is going on? Is everyone safe? Is Micca's house safe?

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:20 AM

The fire is over by the Olymic site....all is well, Micca's house is still standing

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:21 AM

should read olympic site

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:26 AM

According to the BBC it's an old bus garage.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:33 AM

Over here the news immediately suggested terrorist attack.
Too bad - it would have been nice for Micca to have an excuse to stay longer.
M

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:37 AM

There was an incredible amount of smoke just half an hour ago. We saw the column of smoke from our offices in the City even though we're hemmed in by tall buildings. If it had only been a few streets away I would have thought it a large fire. By the time I went outside the column had collapsed and you could tell the true distance. If it is an old bus garage then I suspect there are a few old tyres and drums of diesel to add to the smoke, not to mention that the concrete would have been soaked in diesel anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:54 AM

BBC have got it here .

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:56 AM

news is on now....the fire is at an old bus depot in the olympic park and is not thought to be terrorist related. Can see the smoke from my house

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 09:17 AM

Within minutes the news have been degraded from No. 1 to about No. 5 in Germany.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 10:26 AM

Didn't have a clue it was happening until I opened this thread, which I thought was about the fire back in the 17th Century.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 11:59 AM

Apparently firemen often have to endure attacks by "yoofs" as well as the dangers of the fire itself.

London's burning, London's burning,
Fetch the engine, Fetch the engine,
Chuck bricks, Chuck bricks,
At the firemen, wha'ever...

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 02:15 PM

My wife and I are planning to visit London for a week next May. Please don't burn down the city until after we've left. Thanks ever so much.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:02 PM

Okay, I saw something about it on the AP website. Got a doozy of a smoke goin'. Anybody hurt?

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:39 PM

Is it out yet?

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:55 PM

Just spoke to my son up there, the brigade did a grand job in very dangerous conditions, residents told to close their windows as there was an asbestos roof on building.

The building was due to come down shortly. The costly problem of the removal of the hazardous asbestos roofing has gone. Seems to have been the work of vandals. The disused premises had been a favourite haunt for under age drinkers.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Bee
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 11:53 PM

Well, glad no one seems to've been harmed... but I was expecting a thread about Boudicca's famous burning of Londinium, since I read a few months ago they'd got a dig going in that strata of London's past.

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: GUEST,Mr Fox
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 10:59 AM

Damn! Five years too early........

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 04:49 PM

Count it as a practice run Mr Fox....

The smoke was indeed incredible, people in the path of it were advised to close windows and not go out if possible. Traffic was diverted away from the site and the trains were held up for a short while.

The building had originally been a bus depot, but had also been used as a clothing warehouse and was due to be demolished in the near future anyway. Someone has saved themselves a huge bill for the safe removal of asbestos roofing. It was in an area that had been partially cleared and there was little risk of it spreading. Residential areas were never in any danger and it was brought under control remarkably quickly for the size of it. It may have been used by 'yoofs' for illicit purposes but as that part of the site is fairly well fenced in, it's unlikely it was them that started it.

There was still a stink of burning in the air this morning.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: London Fire
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 07 - 05:14 PM

Just to put it into place, as the crow flies, the fire was about a mile and a half away from Micca's house and my home.

LTS