Thoughts on that big carpark fire in Liverpool

[Gavin John Hyde]

Seen on news there has been a huge fire at a multi storey car park in Liverpool.
The pictures online show pretty much every car is a burnt wreck and the heat was so hot it caused concrete floors to fall through.
Makes you wonder just how hot it got in there... either way the insurers are going to have a bad start to the new year! if in theory the fire can be traced back to one car, then there is every likelihood that cars insurance firm will be liable for all the millions for cars, vans and contents and damage to building.... thankfully all the horses being homed on the lower level for the horse show next door at the arena were safely evacuated.
Had a friend who had a vauxhall that caught fire, they recalled the model and so called fix it, but the fires kept happening.

 

[Strima]

Default answer, electrical fire. We are now to install non-combustible DBs in car parks...

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Default answer, electrical fire. We are now to install non-combustible DBs in car parks...

to facilitate this they will now be extending Part P to public car parks to protect people from very unlikely eventualities. they will also insist that you adequately adequately support cables in event of fire as the concrete appears to have exploded in the heat and fell away to the floor below..

 

[telectrix]

electrical fault my Arse. 200 horses farting in a confined space and a Scouser lighting up a spliff in a stolen hot-wired Ford Focus.. recipe for disaster.

 

[trypod]

Sue Wright had been attending the horse show with her husband, former England footballer Mark Wright.

She said she saw an old Land Rover - thought by firefighters to be the source of the blaze - with its engine on fire.

 

[telectrix]

normal for a land rover then?

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Sue Wright had been attending the horse show with her husband, former England footballer Mark Wright.

She said she saw an old Land Rover - thought by firefighters to be the source of the blaze - with its engine on fire.

Fair play to her though, she went down the extra level to tell them to get the horses out, she could have legged it with her husband who had taken the kids to safety.

 

[Squid]

Did Liverpool play in London before the fire?

 

[static zap]

A more normal occurance for Petrol
(soon to be Electric ) vehicles .
At least not many vehicles still use gravity feed from petrol tank !

 

[Strima]

A more normal occurance for Petrol
(soon to be Electric ) vehicles .
At least not many vehicles still use gravity feed from petrol tank !

Until a lithium battery catches fire...

 

[Madocks]

Shame my car wasnt there loaded with 19 laptops, imagine the amount of scousers insurance claims

 

[telectrix]

Shame my car wasnt there loaded with 19 laptops, imagine the amount of scousers insurance claims

so you're the one been nicking all the laptops.? what use can you have for them in pontypridd.they need electrickery to work.

 

[Madocks]

so you're the one been nicking all the laptops.? what use can you have for them in pontypridd.they need electrickery to work.

We have generators, soon as the internet lands here we are all sorted!

 

[Wilko]

I had hoped that a multi storey public structure would have sprinklers ?

 

[telectrix]

I had hoped that a multi storey public structure would have sprinklers ?

they took them all out as the romanian manchester migrants were using them for morning showers.

 

[Squid]

so you're the one been nicking all the laptops.? what use can you have for them in pontypridd.they need electrickery to work.

Also an IQ higher then a fish.

 

[StephenRowley]

Sprinklers are fire suspression there only there to allow people to get out

 

[Taylortwocities]

Just saw the report on this on the TV news. Apparently there were a number of cars parked on the roof that have been untouched (god knows how they'll get them down).

Stupidly there were some dogs left in one or two of the cars (who leaves their dogs on their own in a car for a few hours while they go to a horse show, not an animal lovers, that's for sure).
The good news is that the firemen were able to rescue the poor animals once the fire had been brought under control.
Those owners should have their dogs taken away from them.
/rant over

Liverpool Echo Arena fire: Six dogs saved from burning car park | Metro News - http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/01/six-dogs-saved-from-certain-death-in-devastating-liverpool-car-park-fire-7195677/

 

[PEG]

Judging by actual reports (i had a lot of pals competing,at the show) the initial fire was seen,and may have been sorted,if any extinguisher was to hand...
I have always run with a small extinguisher,in all my vehicles,for 30+ years,had to use on one occasion,at Barton Airport,to put out a vehicle engine fire.

Probably few about,in multi-storeys,due to cost/vandalism,which does not appear to be as big a problem,in other European countries

 

[Pete E]

Estimates put about 5000 to 6000 vehicles destroyed (depending where you read) so given its location, expect about 20,000 claims to the insurance..

Every rusting wreck in Liverpool will have been parked in that garage and all will be rare classic cars/collectors vehicle that were under going expensive restorations...