| Forty years ago today 10:57 - May 11 with 751 views | Miaow |
Fifty-six lives were claimed by the most horrific fire at Valley Parade.
May they not be forgotten. [Post edited 11 May 11:02]
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| Forty years ago today on 11:32 - May 11 with 669 views | Eireannach_gorm |
The Maintenance manager in my job used to play the video footage every year during fire safety week to show how quickly fire can take hold. She must have edited the original footage as I don't remember seeing the person on fire at the end ( which is why I didn't link to it ). From start to inferno is only about six minutes. |  | | |
| Forty years ago today on 11:51 - May 11 with 638 views | Mullet |
| Forty years ago today on 11:32 - May 11 by Eireannach_gorm |
The Maintenance manager in my job used to play the video footage every year during fire safety week to show how quickly fire can take hold. She must have edited the original footage as I don't remember seeing the person on fire at the end ( which is why I didn't link to it ). From start to inferno is only about six minutes. |
Was a standard video for lots of sectors. When training doormen, security guards and stewards we used to show it.
Horrible stuff and not everyone can handle it.
I guess there’s something in Bradford having a decent season this year. |  |
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| Forty years ago today on 12:19 - May 11 with 576 views | ClareBlue |
I was at school less than a mile away and my best man was at the match. I was there a week before and we did notice the rubbish below the wooden seats, so we couldn't have been the only ones. |  | | |
| Forty years ago today on 12:19 - May 11 with 568 views | LA_Tractor_Boy |
| Forty years ago today on 11:32 - May 11 by Eireannach_gorm |
The Maintenance manager in my job used to play the video footage every year during fire safety week to show how quickly fire can take hold. She must have edited the original footage as I don't remember seeing the person on fire at the end ( which is why I didn't link to it ). From start to inferno is only about six minutes. |
Health & Safety must have been almost non-existent in the 80s.
The Bradford and Kings Cross fires, Hillsborough and Zeebrugge Ferry disaster should never have been allowed to happen. | | | |
| Forty years ago today on 13:01 - May 11 with 499 views | gainsboroughblue |
1985 was an absolutely awful year for football. Bradford, Heysel, hooliganism like Millwall at Luton, the death of the young fan at Birmingham.
Attendances really went south as well. |  |
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| Forty years ago today on 18:31 - May 11 with 359 views | Churchman |
Thanks to work I’ve seen all the footage taken. Horrific. The lessons of the disaster are relevant today as then.
Human beings will respond to what they know. The way you went into the ground is the way out, especially in a panic. At Valley Parade it wasn’t. The stand went from a small flicker flame to a conflagration in under four minutes.
The lesson today is wherever you go or stay, there should be two ways out minimum. Where you came in and another. In Bradford’s case, the pitch.
Know where the exits are! Secondly, fire. Don’t assume you have time. You may not as the victims of Bradford found out. Fire can travel faster than you can run.
The flip side of that ghastly disaster is how stadiums have improved. Thank goodness for that.
RIP the 56 and thoughts to those who lost people and those who suffer to this day. |  | | |
| Forty years ago today on 08:30 - May 12 with 190 views | BrentwoodBlagger2 |
I remember seeing this tragedy develop live on TV in 1985 and it was horrendous. Seeing the man with his coat on fire running away from the burning stand as the reporter was emotionally saying 'oh that poor man' as other fans were trying to pull him to the ground to extinguish him. The BBC2 documentary last night very well put together and highly emotional. It is well worth watching. [Post edited 12 May 8:33]
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| Forty years ago today on 08:54 - May 12 with 157 views | ITFC_Forever |
I've also seen the footage on training courses as well.
There was a programme interviewing people who were there on BBC2 last night, which is worth watching.
The recommendations that came in after led to a number of stands around the country being closed down, not least the old Portman Road stand which by then was at Foxhall Stadium. The hurricane of 1987 took half the stand, and the Bradford Inquiry finished it off.
Anyone who has been to Foxhall in the last 10 years or so will see the two large stands now on the back straight, they are from the 2012 Olympics, and underneath, you can still see the footings of the old stand.
To the point about H&S in the 80s, it was virtually non-existent, and companies could get away with anything - it was all about profit and corporate greed and sod the customers. Minimum investment, maximum profit. The high profile disasters moved the needle on that so we now have facilities that are fit for purpose and are properly regulated - but unfortunately for those affected by the disasters, they had to go through that pain. |  |
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