Never heard about this, shocking if true.

 

(Link is to a Guardian news story)

 

Bradford fire

Sounds plausible loads of bent business folk have started fires to claim insurance.

Linked to EIGHT fires before the Bradford one, and was apparently struggling to pay his staff at the time.

 

Yep, dodgy as fuck. Wouldn't be shocked at all to hear it was deliberate.

Was always astonishing how quickly it went up.

Wow. Poor guy. Sounds well dodgy.

That's dark. Poor families have been through enough now this.

Was always astonishing how quickly it went up.

Still can't get my head round the fact that this is real time.

 

It takes longer to poach an egg.

 

Unbelievable.

 

Before anyone starts can we please not turn this into Hillsborough discussion please.

Ducking hell. That's hell of an accusation.

 

I cannot believe those fucking idiots grinning and jumping infront of the cameras as the stand is burning behind them with people dying.

 

Absolutely despicable

I cannot believe those fucking idiots grinning and jumping infront of the cameras as the stand is burning behind them with people dying.

 

Absolutely despicable

I doubt they knew that was the case at the time!

I doubt they knew that was the case at the time!

True, but not exactly the time to piss about is it when half the ground is ablaze.

I'm sure they didn't.

Consider a wooden stadium, you know, like Burnden. Then get a fire going underneath the stand and then once it has been going for a minute or so, start instructing folk to evacuate as quickly as they can.

I know for a fact that many will try to get out the way they came in. It's the way they know. I also know that having a double crash- gate with a padlock and chain stopping them opening was the main thing that caused most of the deaths. Had the gates not been locked there would have been significantly fewer lives lost.

 

Don't think people will only go out the way they came in? Take a look at this from America.

 

Warning, very graphic.

https://youtu.be/OOzfq9Egxeo

That's grim as fuck Micky. Especially those first few minutes you see everyone panic.

 

How many pegged it in that??

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire

 

100 dead

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire

 

 

100 dead

 

When you realise how many died in the corridor.. That's grim

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire

 

 

 

100 dead

 

Jesus. That all makes grim reading.

 

Pyrotechnics indoors was never going to end well.

 

Either was coating the place out in flammable foam to be honest.

 

Bet that tour manager struggles sleeping at night.

Only watched the Bradford fire video once & have no wish to ever see it again. Truly disturbing, can't begin to imagine if it had been Burnden....& it could so easily have been.

Never heard about this, shocking if true.

 

(Link is to a Guardian news story)

 

Bradford fire

 

It does make you wonder why the press just repeated what they were told when all that information was out there all the time. He's right, it shouldn't have been left to him.

 

He says that the exit gates at the back of the stand, were open all the time, but because they left the padlocks on, presumably people just assumed in the limited visibility that they were locked. That's something else that didn't come out at the time either.

Blimey

 

I'm tempted to think the guy might be on to something

 

Though I doubt he would ever have intended to kill anyone.

 

Can't watch that video ever again

I love a good conspiracy theory.

 

Can't watch that video ever again

Same for me. It's the old chap at the end just stumbling out of the stand on fire. Harrowing.

Only watched the Bradford fire video once & have no wish to ever see it again. 

 

This

Just watched it again, don't know why though, as it always puts a tear in my eye.

 

I think it's the stark difference, between the folk laughing and dancing compared to the people on fire, and in hindsight knowing that so many people were being burnt to death under the stand.

 

Remember watching it on the News as it unfolded.

i was at cambridge

 

we won

We played them (Bradford) the week before, think they got promoted(?).