I have read the report and I appreciate Beds F&R Service revealing the make, model and year of the vehicle, thanks to public pressure.
I was absolutely right that all the so-called updates everybody kept insisting was new information was pure PR, based on what was announced on Day One, as I said. And note, the Home Office was appraised from get-go.
Within a few hours of the start of the incident, Bedfordshire FRS received numerous requests for information; these were received via phone call, emails and via the online portal of the Service’s website. To date, Bedfordshire FRS has received over 50 requests for information. Most of the requests were dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, with a statement jointly agreed between Bedfordshire FRS and Bedfordshire Police being provided with limited information that was already in the public domain and advising further information would be released when the investigation had been concluded.
So all those trying to force me into admitting the press releases were all new updates, were wrong.
It also confirms that the Range Rover Sport (and there was a 2014 version that did have a lithium ion battery, although I accept this one did not) on arriving at the car park was emitting white smoke from under its bonnet. So the smoke was light-coloured and not an error of the colour spectrum settings on one's laptop.
I should have liked to have seen a recommendation that in future, such an observation - of smoke emanating from a car bonnet - in any arriving vehicle would be flagged and refused entry.
I'd also have appreciated a detailed explanation of how the flames developed so rapidly but I am sure experts on youtube will be along shortly.
Whilst the report is immaculately well-written, I thought the Merseyside Fire Brigade Report of 2018 was more comprehensive and better presented.
I was quite shocked that none of the Liverpool Fire Report recommendations had been taken on board, the Fire Services seemed quite ill prepared for such a major incident, with no logistics manager with a central list of available personnel and up to date contact information. Also, the location of the water tanks were hidden away in the Airport's risk schedule, kept separately from LLA, the car park authority, so not discovered until after the Fire Brigade had located an alternative source of water, at the bottom of a hill. A car drove over the hose, causing it to break at one point.
An airport worker decided he was going to fetch his car one hour into the fire and he was let through but then had to be rescued (really!). It seems people are still not aware of fire safety procedures. Only four people rang 999, emergency services, that was a theme also common to Liverpool.
Biggest eyebrow raiser was the team of arriving firefighters who scoffed all of the food on their arrival, leaving those coming off their four-hour shift with nothing eat, except a van was sent to fetch some more food. It all seemed quite chaotic with the communications radio channels all on one frequency meaning the senior commanders had to use a second device to communicate with each other given the sheer amount of calls being exchanged.
