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[Rods2]

Sorry to see what has happened and the devastation to the garages, houses and cars. Just glad you, your family and neighbours are all okay. As STEMO has said, this may take time to sink in and emotionally recover from, it is easy to soldier thinking you are all right, when in fact your not, as it has hit you much harder than you realise.

When we store things like I've got two gas bottles for a camping gas fridge and camping cooker in my shed, along with a 10l petrol can for my motor mower and two 5l cans of petrol each with different two stroke oil ratios for my chainsaw and hedge cutter and you don't think of the possible consequences when things go wrong. 

[Kevin Wood]

Sorry to see what has happened and the devastation to the garages, houses and cars. Just glad you, your family and neighbours are all okay. As STEMO has said, this may take time to sink in and emotionally recover from, it is easy to soldier thinking you are all right, when in fact your not, as it has hit you much harder than you realise.

When we store things like I've got two gas bottles for a camping gas fridge and camping cooker in my shed, along with a 10l petrol can for my motor mower and two 5l cans of petrol each with different two stroke oil ratios for my chainsaw and hedge cutter and you don't think of the possible consequences when things go wrong. 

It's made me think about some of the things I've kept in there in the past. My garage is attached to the house, and the loft where stuff tends to get dumped the other side of a wall from our bed. Gas cylinders, car batteries, cans of fuel, a shedload of timber. A gas pipe runs the length of the garage roof too.

[cnj]

surely though, if we complied with the commercial hse regs, all our batteries would be in one secure area, our fuel/oils etc in another, gas cylinders in another, we would all be safer, however it would take so long to get to anything we should never complete the task outstanding !. my abject sympathies go out to TB and family as it must have been and probably still is a most shocking and bewildering time.

[chrisgixer]

We had the fire brigade come round to fit free fire alarms. (Yes they do that you know) They insist on checking the rest of the house for fire risks and of course, they're straight into the garage and shed.

They noted I had a lockable metal cabinate, but said I had it arse backwards. ??

I should take the power tools out of the cabinet, and take ALL the chemicals, oils, aerosols, cleaning products, fuel cans and anything flammable off the shelves and put those in the metal cabinet instead.

Seals them away from spark and external heat sources. And if they leak, they are contained I guess.

I haven't done it.



Might be worth a call to Fire prevention for the rest of us ?

[Kevin Wood]

Yeah, tend to keep my cans of paint, carb cleaner, grease, oil, brake fluid, etc. in the bottom of my metal cabinet, not through design, admittedly, but that's where they ended up. If I could shut the door on the cabinet I guess it would help.

[tigers_gonads]

We had the fire brigade come round to fit free fire alarms. (Yes they do that you know) They insist on checking the rest of the house for fire risks and of course, they're straight into the garage and shed.

They noted I had a lockable metal cabinate, but said I had it arse backwards. ??

I should take the power tools out of the cabinet, and take ALL the chemicals, oils, aerosols, cleaning products, fuel cans and anything flammable off the shelves and put those in the metal cabinet instead.

Seals them away from spark and external heat sources. And if they leak, they are contained I guess.

I haven't done it.



Might be worth a call to Fire prevention for the rest of us ?

Got to admit, after reading what has happened to Jaime and his family I had a good look round my shed this morning.
No details BUT lets just say that a few changes needed in there 

[MR MISTER]

My shed is a tip, but it's well away from the house. It's nearer next doors house, and I don't like them.

[tigers_gonads]

My shed is a tip, but it's well away from the house. It's nearer next doors house, and I don't like them.

Mine is ............. but being a council house, my shed is a shed /coal house knocked into one with a reinforced concrete roof between them.
The passage is blocked up front and back.
IF anything went pop, the pressure would have only 2 wooden doors to get threw before the flame front hit the interior of my home. 

[TheBoy]

aerosols

I'm told I'm storing some of my (now empty) ones in a garden about 4 doors down 

[Radar]

Thank goodness you and mrs. b are ok. That looks scary

[chrisgixer]

aerosols

I'm told I'm storing some of my (now empty) ones in a garden about 4 doors down 

Thought I was being quoted on spelling again for a minute.

I bet the back field and general surrounding area are worth a search for tools, if nothing else. Spanners don't just disappear there must be some around surely?

[PhilRich]

aerosols

I'm told I'm storing some of my (now empty) ones in a garden about 4 doors down 

Thought I was being quoted on spelling again for a minute.

I bet the back field and general surrounding area are worth a search for tools, if nothing else. Spanners don't just disappear there must be some around surely?

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NASA has just published this!


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And this just in from the neighbours, who are out with metal detectors doing their bit to help! 

[05omegav6]

Any suggestion as to the heat of the fire? Aluminium is liquid by about 700°c, steel isn't too much above that 

Might be worth aquiring a metal detector and scouring gardens/hedges/fields within a couple of hundred feet

But tools might also be hidden by melted plastic/debris etc, so sift carefully and methodically, you never know what might turn up

I know it's been said before, but it's worth repeating...

Stuff is generally replaceable or reparable, but people aren't,  so no matter how shitty this episode is, it could have been a whole lot worse. But it wasn't and that's what's important

[Vamps]

As others have said, glad everyone is OK, do we know what happened / caused this?.....

[Shackeng]

I'm sure we will find out in the fullness of time, but it is no doubt the subject of a police or insurance investigation at the moment, so probably best not to speculate.