| Big incident at Luton airport 08:41 - Oct 11 with 2620 views | blueasfook |
Major fire in a multi-storey car park. Some people are going to be getting back to Blighty to find they have no car anymore. [Post edited 11 Oct 2023 8:41]
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:21 - Oct 11 with 2428 views | soupytwist |
Blamed on EVs parked there of course.
Although, according to the BBC report, Andy Hopkinson, Bedfordshire's chief fire officer, said the service had "no intelligence than to suggest it was anything other than an accidental fire".
He said it was thought the fire started with a car, and then spread through the building.
"It's believed to be diesel-powered, at this stage all subject to verification," [Post edited 11 Oct 2023 12:34]
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:57 - Oct 11 with 2341 views | Warkysgonnagetyou |
Yep, my car is in that car park, got back to Luton at 9pm just before they diverted planes elsewhere to see the fire in full flow, hotel overnight and now taxi back to Ipswich then wait to hear if my car is safe or not. |  | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:57 - Oct 11 with 2334 views | Brookermg |
Oh no, will have to go back to using Gatwick for parking then. |  | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:58 - Oct 11 with 2334 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:21 - Oct 11 by soupytwist |
Blamed on EVs parked there of course.
Although, according to the BBC report, Andy Hopkinson, Bedfordshire's chief fire officer, said the service had "no intelligence than to suggest it was anything other than an accidental fire".
He said it was thought the fire started with a car, and then spread through the building.
"It's believed to be diesel-powered, at this stage all subject to verification," [Post edited 11 Oct 2023 12:34]
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Also confirmed this morning there were no sprinklers in the entire car park.
How does a carpark get built in 2018 without any fire protection systems? |  | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:59 - Oct 11 with 2325 views | blueasfook |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:57 - Oct 11 by Warkysgonnagetyou |
Yep, my car is in that car park, got back to Luton at 9pm just before they diverted planes elsewhere to see the fire in full flow, hotel overnight and now taxi back to Ipswich then wait to hear if my car is safe or not. |
Sorry to hear that. Hope your motor is OK. If not, hopefully your insurance will cover it. | |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 13:38 - Oct 11 with 2221 views | Warkysgonnagetyou |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:59 - Oct 11 by blueasfook |
Sorry to hear that. Hope your motor is OK. If not, hopefully your insurance will cover it. |
Cheers, apparently quite a few cars are undamaged but retrieving them will be the problem due to the collapsed sections. | | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 13:57 - Oct 11 with 2160 views | blueasfook |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 13:38 - Oct 11 by Warkysgonnagetyou |
Cheers, apparently quite a few cars are undamaged but retrieving them will be the problem due to the collapsed sections. |
Do you have an app where you can connect to your car? My car has one, it gives me location where it is etc. If its toast, then I imagine you'd get some message like "Sorry mate, your car is fooked" or something. | |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 15:25 - Oct 11 with 2011 views | Geomorph |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:58 - Oct 11 by ElderGrizzly |
Also confirmed this morning there were no sprinklers in the entire car park.
How does a carpark get built in 2018 without any fire protection systems? |
i guess it's just welcome to low cost, low quality, corner cutting britain, innit? |  | | |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 15:53 - Oct 11 with 1965 views | Warkysgonnagetyou |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 13:57 - Oct 11 by blueasfook |
Do you have an app where you can connect to your car? My car has one, it gives me location where it is etc. If its toast, then I imagine you'd get some message like "Sorry mate, your car is fooked" or something. |
I do, it let me unlock and lock the doors ... but that's not to say the doors aren't spread over the site! Could have been a lot worse if it was 30 mins later as I would have been getting in it. | | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 16:56 - Oct 11 with 1839 views | blueasfook |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 15:25 - Oct 11 by Geomorph |
i guess it's just welcome to low cost, low quality, corner cutting britain, innit? |
Love it. Who needs public services and safety and things like that. | |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 17:12 - Oct 11 with 1805 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:58 - Oct 11 by ElderGrizzly |
Also confirmed this morning there were no sprinklers in the entire car park.
How does a carpark get built in 2018 without any fire protection systems? |
It’s a car park made out of concrete. It’s hardly going to catch fire is it?
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 17:16 - Oct 11 with 1800 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:58 - Oct 11 by ElderGrizzly |
Also confirmed this morning there were no sprinklers in the entire car park.
How does a carpark get built in 2018 without any fire protection systems? |
Assume not required under the building regs for this type of building. In a case like that, the first thing getting dropped when tendering for the contract is fire suppression. |  |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 17:26 - Oct 11 with 1785 views | LaManga |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:21 - Oct 11 by soupytwist |
Blamed on EVs parked there of course.
Although, according to the BBC report, Andy Hopkinson, Bedfordshire's chief fire officer, said the service had "no intelligence than to suggest it was anything other than an accidental fire".
He said it was thought the fire started with a car, and then spread through the building.
"It's believed to be diesel-powered, at this stage all subject to verification," [Post edited 11 Oct 2023 12:34]
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Sounds like it was actually a hybrid Range Rover. Diesel cars don't just burst into flames. | | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 17:54 - Oct 11 with 1754 views | bluelagos |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 17:12 - Oct 11 by Swansea_Blue |
It’s a car park made out of concrete. It’s hardly going to catch fire is it?
Oh. |
I think we may have stumbled across a solution to the dodgy concrete problem - just burn down all our schools and jobs a goodun. |  |
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| Big incident at Luton airport on 18:20 - Oct 11 with 1732 views | MK1 |
A Range Rover caught fire apparently. A Land Rover caught fire and destroyed a car park in Liverpool a while back as well. |  | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 18:34 - Oct 11 with 1693 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 18:20 - Oct 11 by MK1 |
A Range Rover caught fire apparently. A Land Rover caught fire and destroyed a car park in Liverpool a while back as well. |
Seems unlikely, I mean a Range Rover would have had to get to the car park without breaking down first… | | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 22:09 - Oct 11 with 1570 views | Suffolktractor |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:58 - Oct 11 by ElderGrizzly |
Also confirmed this morning there were no sprinklers in the entire car park.
How does a carpark get built in 2018 without any fire protection systems? |
Sprinklers would be totally useless in a car fire, whether it’s petrol diesel or battery. | | | |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 23:28 - Oct 11 with 1496 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Big incident at Luton airport on 12:57 - Oct 11 by Brookermg |
Oh no, will have to go back to using Gatwick for parking then. |
Luton on fire
Gatwick parkings terrified. [Post edited 12 Oct 2023 1:05]
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