Cont: Luton Airport Car Park Fire part II

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GlennB said:
"Video footage has emerged apparently showing the moment a multi-storey car park at Luton Airport partially collapsed after a diesel car caught fire before spreading to other vehicles.

CCTV captured from inside the terminal car park appears to show the ceiling crashing to the ground after one car caught alight on Tuesday night.

The Telegraph has spoken to multiple airport workers who say the footage, which is dated on Tuesday, is accurate."

link (The Global Herald, stating it's The Telegraph's original words)

Is that what you mean?
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The DAILY TELEGRAPH's captions over the video it posted, as I posted. The DT refers to the car in the singular.
 
Vixen said:
Did you try copying and pasting text from my link? Well, what happened? Dodgy site or not, as I said.
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You can't copy/paste text from a screen shot. I took your word for it that the site was dodgy and typed a chunk into google. Found a clean version in seconds. Are you incapable of doing the same?
 
Vixen said:
The DAILY TELEGRAPH's captions over the video it posted, as I posted. The DT refers to the car in the singular.
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:confused: :confused: :confused:

But we know the car#0 fire spread to other cars. The DT mentions that.

We know collapsing floor sections caused what we see in the video.

We're sure the video is of the ground floor, because of the entry barriers, whereas the fire started a couple of storeys higher.

What point are you trying to make?
 
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Vixen said:
If the urban myth turns out to be true and the owner is a toff who could afford a £100,000 personalized number plate and who expected airport staff to deal with his smouldering car whilst he raced off to his flight for his 'urgent meeting', then think of his face when he is hit with the bill for 1,400 cars, his insurers covering the first £2m Public cover maximum. As I recall, the Cork fire bill came to claims of over €30m and that was only 60 vehicles destroyed, plus damage to a shopping centre. Add up the Luton fire and we are seeing £20m building costs (built by Buckinghamshire Construction, which went bust a couple of years ago) plus, plus, plus +++. This urban myth guy, if he is wealthy won't be wealthy for much longer. If he is on benefits, he could pay it off at £1 a week by arrangement with his creditors and DWP Universal Credit.
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We can add "the insurance industry" onto the list of things you do not understand.
 
Vixen said:
If anything, the Liverpool ECHO fire should have been far faster ceteris paribus as despite being classed as an open-sided car park, its sheer floor area gave it the effect of being semi-closed (thus having a detrimental effect on the speed of fire spreading) as is explained in the Merseyside Fire Brigade's report. Fire chiefs said this was the worst car park fire they had seen.

The Luton car park fire spread twice as fast (51 minutes from first alarm to major incident) as the Liverpool one (almost two hours before firemen had to retreat from the building, when it spread to the next floor up).
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:sdl:
 
GlennB said:
Hard to see how it could be anything else. There are entry barriers there and I've only ever seen those at the ground level.
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Well as they have been remarkably lax in releasing the 'flying cars' that we were all supposed to be 'driving around' in back in the 50's and 60's, there seems to be a distinct lack of use to any entry barriers fitted to entry barriers mounted up the upper floors...

:D
Where's our bloomin flying cars we were all supposed to have by now???
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GlennB said:
You can't copy/paste text from a screen shot. I took your word for it that the site was dodgy and typed a chunk into google. Found a clean version in seconds. Are you incapable of doing the same?
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My link was as follows:

https://90newstime.com/index.php/2023/10/11/a473695827-html/?feed_id=97234&_unique_id=654ca304c9fa2

As I stated, I did not supply the link as it was dodgy. For the second time, it is not possible to copy and paste from it as it diverts to adverts.

Kimmo sabby?

You made out that I had underhand motives, yet again, so I wonder whether you are judging others by your own standards as this would not be the first time.
 
Vixen said:
If the urban myth turns out to be true and the owner is a toff who could afford a £100,000 personalized number plate and who expected airport staff to deal with his smouldering car whilst he raced off to his flight for his 'urgent meeting', then think of his face when he is hit with the bill for 1,400 cars, his insurers covering the first £2m Public cover maximum. As I recall, the Cork fire bill came to claims of over €30m and that was only 60 vehicles destroyed, plus damage to a shopping centre. Add up the Luton fire and we are seeing £20m building costs (built by Buckinghamshire Construction, which went bust a couple of years ago) plus, plus, plus +++. This urban myth guy, if he is wealthy won't be wealthy for much longer. If he is on benefits, he could pay it off at £1 a week by arrangement with his creditors and DWP Universal Credit.
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Meanwhile, in the real world...
 
Vixen said:
My link was as follows:

https://90newstime.com/index.php/2023/10/11/a473695827-html/?feed_id=97234&_unique_id=654ca304c9fa2

As I stated, I did not supply the link as it was dodgy. For the second time, it is not possible to copy and paste from it as it diverts to adverts.
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I can follow that link, read the article, copy from it and paste what's copied, all perfectly happily. Maybe you need a better browser, or something?

Why didn't you include the bit that says the family were on the plane for 2 hours before seeing the fire while getting off?
 
Vixen said:
I was quoting the DAILY TELEGRAPH.

Not true. Lithium battery fires burn at a much higher temperature than petrol or diesel.
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What is your evidence for this claim?

It was a diesel car anyway.
 
GlennB said:
You can't copy/paste text from a screen shot. I took your word for it that the site was dodgy and typed a chunk into google. Found a clean version in seconds. Are you incapable of doing the same?
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Google lens lets you copy text from a screenshot and turns it in to 'real' text.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Google lens lets you copy text from a screenshot and turns it in to 'real' text.
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Ah, cheers. I have Google lens on my phone but use a laptop for ISF. The transfer would be a bit of a hassle, I'm thinking.
 
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