A man has been arrested by police in connection with a fire that gutted a multistorey car park at Luton airport and destroyed about 1,500 vehicles.
About 30,000 passengers were affected when more than 200 flights were suspended on October 10 because of the fire. Six firefighters and a member of the public were treated in hospital for smoke inhalation.
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38 Comments
Was he driving an electric car 😂😂😂
It’s ok hel get 30 pound fine and 20 hours community service
Menace wherever they are!
Was it the man who invented the lithium ion battery 🤔
Well that told us absolutely nothing.
Made more interesting by what it doesn't say? 🤔🙄
I reckon its because the owner of the Range Rover just stood there filming it on fire instead of say calling the fire brigade or setting the fire alarm off
We all know the kind of names the press are prepared to release and what names they arent
Obviously the work off a Church of England death squad.
It is about time that lie detectors are used in all of these type of cases; they may not be 100% accurate, but what is; it is science isn’t it? Didn’t they tell us that face nappies helped stop the spread of covid, or the vaccines stopped you from catching it, well not 100% , but helped; we’ll perhaps lie detectors would help to verify what is really going on; but they don’t want that. We should demand it; mandatory lie detector tests for all politicians, chief constables and public enquiries.
Still no mention of the quality of the concrete.
What’s going on with the media!
When it was on fire first you said it is a car that blasted so the others!
Why multi level car parking don't need to have sprinklers?
What's the odds the insurance companies try to weasel their way out of paying out for this?
Turns out it was a Hamas missile from Luton town centre. No wonder they were trying to cover things up.
Batteries ffs media just say it
The police have to be seen to be doing their jobs, and you can't arrest a car! Besides which, the public's being encouraged to swallow the line that 'someone committed a crime' (of parking their car in a car park?) is preferable to reporting the reality of an electric car spontaneously combusting, which they do, and for which there is already video evidence, including in this instance.
Please disclose the name of the Man arrested ? and religion
Surprise Surprise
So misleading if he got arrested for criminal damage thats nothing to do with arson lighting fires etc he most probably has been arrested for criminal damage because his ELECTRIC CAR BATTERY lit the place up and it was seen on camera ergo manufacturers fault
No sprinkler system? Something very fishy going on – and not mentioning any arrest details – we all know what that means.
The Average Unemployed friend on a wednesday 😂😂😂😂😂
Well that was an informative, detailed and in depth report.
With British justice being as lame as it is, this man will probably get 6 months community service.
Our fake news outlets said this was a diesel car that spontaneously combusts first.
Scotland ive just read 😱👹😫🤛think UK should agree to take thousands people from gaza as refugees .so thousands more Brits go homeless then so how unless of course the world moe imporatnt than british working class that actually whose taxes see immigrants better off whislt putting their own health and safety and neeed for a home and human rights wtfks going on and happened to ppl and the courage if brits to fight back they human rights are being violated if becoming homess is the future of backbone of Britain strike ! down tools reduce all the millions you earn that your gov want to give away on war and invading all youv worked for by its madness inflicting poverty on its own ppl via THEIR OWN TAXES
Lolo … arrested for having a fault in your car… what next …arrested for eating food you bought at a restaurant that made people sick… whatever you do, don’t investigate the car manufacturer just the poor bloke that bought the car 😂😂😂
This is a cover up for an electric car fire
There is now a video on Twitter/X showing the car on fire taken from the FRONT. The registration is reported as E10 EFL.
What is rather strange about this fire is, it is at an airport, where are all the fuel fire trucks? They could have sprayed the entire area in foam killing the flames before it engulfed the entire car park. I'd be suing Luton Airport management for mismanagement of that fire and what happened to the car park fire management?
Well I was in a car park in Birmingham yesterday which had a comprehensive SPRINKLER system. I can reasonably guess that this car park did not have such.
As soon as they said man you know its a immigrant or son of a immigrant and not terrorist 😂😂😂
32 year old India man was arrested
And this is our electric vehicle utopia
so why i didn't see any sprinkler on when the car caught fire?
Clickbait from The Times hey… Who'd have guessed from this apse wipe paper
That's a big fat lie. No diesel car can cause such a disaster abd we know how often and how many electric cars have suddenly burst into flames and are very very difficult to put out.
But of course the industry wants us to believe electric cars are the answer. NET Zero rubbish
any past claims ? Yeah mate, 1400 cars and a airport car park, about 30 million !