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[Amigo]

That scrapyard fire must've been a biggie given the haz issues that go with it. Hope the fire fighters are ok.

  Also glad my monday job was changed. I was due to load a 20ft box @ Sunbury on Thames. If it's still shut tomorrow the A1, A41 & north circular will be a nightmare not to mention the A14/M11/ Dartford crossing that will be even busier than usual.

[Nickbat]

That scrapyard fire must've been a biggie given the haz issues that go with it. Hope the fire fighters are ok.

  Also glad my monday job was changed. I was due to load a 20ft box @ Sunbury on Thames. If it's still shut tomorrow the A1, A41 & north circular will be a nightmare not to mention the A14/M11/ Dartford crossing that will be even busier than usual.

The A1 was beginning to fill up nicely late afternoon, but the A1 at Fiveways Corner in Hendon was clear both ways. I drove along it myself on the way to Homebase. I doubt it will be quiet tomorrow, though. The fire itself did not seem that dramatic and there were no injuries, but I reckon the heat must have casued some structural problems as it was going for several hours right under the bridge beneath the M1 by London Gateway Services.   

[eddie]

So what plonker issued planning permission to put a scrap yard there?

eddie

[Banjax]

So what plonker issued planning permission to put a scrap yard there?

eddie

are scrapyards likely to go on fire? accidents happen - you cant legislate for every eventuality surely? 

[aaronjb]

In that kind of area I wouldn't be surprised if the scrap yard predated the M1, too.

[Amigo]

Heard on the radio today that the initial fire started at a nearby business as yet undisclosed which spread to said scrapyard. Given most scrappies only have oxy welding/cutting gear, full & il lying about the investigators reckon this would'nt generate 1000+ degrees plus in an outdoor environment...chemical place nearby?

   Apparently such extremes of heat can turn the concrete sections into dust & warp the reinforced steel structure inside them therefore unsafe.

   I bet one or to in. co's. are a tad on edge... gonna be some claim!!!

[Darth Loo-knee]

Was that the bloody Rover 75 that was on fire?
I was stuck in that too 

Then got further up to the good ode M6 then some lorry lost his load of Conrete so that was shut

[Banjax]

arson apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13129347

[Nickbat]

arson apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13129347

Oddly enough, I learned this morning that all the picnic tables and scout camp shelters in Moat Mount Open Space (where I walk my dog) were deliberately set on fire during the afternoon on the same day as the M1 fire. The location is just across the A1 - about 10 minutes walk away from the scrap yard. :-? :-?

My friends have a full skip sitting on their driveway. Could be sometime before it's collected as all but one of the company's skip lorries were burnt out in the M1 fire. 

[Dishevelled Den]

The fire was only an excuse for the closure - a series of events like this was the real reason;


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a44_1303209317

[tunnie]

brilliant 

[Kevin Wood]

The fire was only an excuse for the closure - a series of events like this was the real reason;


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a44_1303209317

Absolutely priceless!

I remember reading a report by a radio amateur partaking in SOTA (summits on the air - essentially climbing to the top of hills, setting up a radio station and talking to people) who lugged his radio equipment up one particularly exhausting hill to find someone already there with his ironing board and iron doing "extreme ironing". 

He remarked that, for once, he wasn't the biggest anorak on the summit.

Kevin

[Banjax]

wouldn't it be "extreme" ironing in the live lanes?

thats just "ironing" 

[Banjax]

arson apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13129347

Oddly enough, I learned this morning that all the picnic tables and scout camp shelters in Moat Mount Open Space (where I walk my dog) were deliberately set on fire during the afternoon on the same day as the M1 fire. The location is just across the A1 - about 10 minutes walk away from the scrap yard. :-? :-?

My friends have a full skip sitting on their driveway. Could be sometime before it's collected as all but one of the company's skip lorries were burnt out in the M1 fire. 

it took a while but they managed to nearly get them all in the fire 

[Nickbat]

arson apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13129347

Oddly enough, I learned this morning that all the picnic tables and scout camp shelters in Moat Mount Open Space (where I walk my dog) were deliberately set on fire during the afternoon on the same day as the M1 fire. The location is just across the A1 - about 10 minutes walk away from the scrap yard. :-? :-?

My friends have a full skip sitting on their driveway. Could be sometime before it's collected as all but one of the company's skip lorries were burnt out in the M1 fire. 

The police have linked these fires with the M1 scrap yard fire and this morning arrested 5 people aged between 14 & 17.