Bedfordshire fire chief said lessons must be learnt from the car park blaze at Luton airport.
Andrew Hopkinson, chief fire officer for Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service told reporters at the scene: “We are already talking to the airport about ensuring that any future, and the existing, car parks have sprinklers fitted because this building is not sprinkler protected.”
He later added: “We always do a thorough debriefing, to identify what lessons are to be learnt.”
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We will always do a thorough debriefing you identify what lessons to be learned um but from my perspective I’m I’m really pleased and particularly want to pay tribute to you know not just my firefighters our control staff but all of the responders both on scene uh and
That have worked you know in the remote coordination rooms um you know that not on scene so it’s been a fantastic fastic multi-agent response but absolutely we’ll do all we can to debrief and make sure that we if there are lessons to be learned uh then we will capture them and
Share them lots of Travelers already at the airport you know and those that are arriving uh you know unable to sort of either join a flight or leave um but all the well rehearsed you know plans to evacuate uh you know the area and you know all of those plans click in and
Although you know evitably there will be some delay while we focus on the firefighting operations uh from what I can see the respon in terms of supporting Travelers you know moving on has worked you know well
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no sprinklers installed either …. wondering if we can make a claim through airport as well as insurance
Diesel is not volitile like petrol or lithium. EV will go from ambient to 2000c in seconds…. Maybe the main reason why no one entered to tackle it immediately. The scary thing is owners charge the planet killers next to petrol pumps with no precautions.
All this was just happened as a matter of fact ???😮
Yep. Just ban EVs
Nothing sinister caused the fire. ''it was just a diesel car,'' what Bull-crap. it was definitely an EV car that started this fire. Diesel cars don't cause these type of fires, and if it was! then it could have been extinguished easily and quickly.
That's what electric cars do. When parking in front of supermarkets, I pay special attention to ensure that there are no electric bombs (cars) next to me. I'll never get into one of those. If an electric taxi comes to pick me up, I will cancel it and ask for a safe diesel.
Fireman to be fired. He doesn't know anything about fires. I wouldn't want such an "expert" to extinguish anything of mine.
The only thing that was fantastic was the fire.
So much for electric vehicles its best to avoid electric cars !
you can drop a match in diesel and it will not ignite, you need massive compression to ignite diesel. the Media and the fire brigade have been told to lie. Money talks
You can’t even light diesel on fire….. it needs mega mega compression to ignite
“Lessons must be learned” this must surely be the most overworked and fatuous expression of the twenty first century! I reply “ no sh*t Sherlock” 😂
well just goes to show if your plane comes down in flames at Luton your a goner .Airports have there own fire service that's supposed to be able to put out a plane full of fuel that's on fire ,but couldn't get to the car park, what if a plane had hit the carpark who would they blame then
Diesel requires a high temperature to ignite, anyone can test this by trying to ignite a small amount of diesel safely.
Lessons learned two more fires in Glasgow airport n. Perth car dealerships
Saw ev charging on lead from house looks like it was fully charged but was still being charged over charging dangerous and stupid
What does he mean by 'lessons to be learnt' is that in relation to ditching lithium batteries by any chance.
I'd like to know by how the insurance companies are going to increase car insurance premiums due to this EV fire. Land Rover should be held responsible as they know they have a problem with their hybrid EVs catching fire which several have done over the last couple of years.
Yes, ban EV vehicles……
So many words, yet says nothing…..bla. .bla…BS…..bla…bla…BS
Lesson here is don't buy an electric car
And the lesson is…….DON'T buy electric vehicles.
EV
Ye …..dont park by a hybrid!
Lessons to be learned don't buy an ev lol.
A couple months ago the city i live in someone's house burned up because of their ev in the garage.
Lesson – ban diesel vehicles which are inherently unsafe.
Lol he knows exactly what caused this my god.🙈
For all of you saying it was electric, it definitely wasn't, I work for the Fire Service and can confirm this