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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STEMO on 09 May 2025, 18:11:09
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Just watching it on local tv, god it was awful. It took hold in minutes.
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Yes, all those years of rubbish and detritus building up under the wooden stand over the years was a tragedy waiting to happen. Pity inspections were so slapdash then, those poor souls would have had longer lives.
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Just seen it on the news, what an awful way to die the fire looks terrifying.
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Remember it like it was yesterday. It was horrific.
Hard to believe it was 40 years ago.
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Tragic, and then there was Hillsborough not long after. :(
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I remember staring at the telly in disbelief as a man stood there with his hair on fire. He was totally confused as to what to do, everything around him in flames. I don't know what happened to him, but I really hope he made it out.
In those days, the cameras didn't 'cut away'.
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I remember the ITV commentator, John Helm, saying at first there was a small fire at the back of the stand. Then within minutes the whole stand was ablaze, with blazing bits of it raining down on people running from it.