Big Fire on Astonfields

[Gramaisc]

Just been out to the bin and can smell it here.

 

[basil]

Just been out to the bin and can smell it here.

Bins usually do smell.....

 

[Gramaisc]

Bins usually do smell.....

Mine doesn't - except from the smouldering plastic 400 yards away.

 

[Withnail]

@gon2seed

Were you a fireman then?

Far be it from me, but yes he was.

There is an extraordinary story attached to the whole thing - if you have an idle hour you can catch up with it via Stafford Forum Catch-Up

 

[Ecker]

How very appropriate that when reading the latest on "Big Fire at Astonfieds" I should see a pop up ad
from "Trading 212" about trading in oil and warning that trading in CFDs "involves a high risk of loss".

Handling oil certainly did not do Global Hygiene a power of good.

 

[staffordjas]

Hubby said he was able to drive down Drummond road past it yesterday to get to his works, but there was still lots of bits of stuff all over the road.

 

[Gramaisc]

Hubby said he was able to drive down Drummond road past it yesterday to get to his works, but there was still lots of bits of stuff all over the road.

Tell him not to pick any of them up.....

 

[Carole]

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...re-blaze-hit-firm-had-no-oil-storage-licence/

Does this mean that they won't be covered by insurance?

 

[photography_bloke]

Does this mean that they won't be covered by insurance?

If it turns out they should have had a license I doubt any insurance company will pay out no

 

[Mudhoney]

Just off the BBC Midlands twitter feed:

"The Environment Agency says the Stafford cleaning firm which caught fire Feb 2nd had "no environmental permit"

I suppose I should be surprised but from my experience of the local council planning and EA.. I'm not.
I do hope the EA are now going to start visiting these local business and start checking for such dangers

 

[gon2seed]

@gon2seed

Were you a fireman then?

Guilty as charged! Retired on ill-health in March 2012.
Hope you will forgive my pedantry, Firefighter there were 5 females on my basic training course of 16, and worked with a number of excellent female operational firefighters in my 12 years of smoke eating! Staffordshire Chief Fire Officer is a former female operational firefighter, the first in the UK!

http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/un-petit-peu.3354/#post-66042

 

[staffordjas]

I went down the path by the river from Riverway towards town yesterday. The environment agency staff were in the carpark behind Asda. Just before I saw them though I'd passed 2 women standing smoking close to where the booms and stuff were soaking the chemicals up . Was just hoping they didn't sling their lit fags ends in !

 

[Gramaisc]

There's still oil flowing down Marston Brook this morning. This is just where it flows under Astonfields Road.

These booms are higher up, but it just flows round the side of them.

I suspect the reed bed in the lower lake is trapping a lot of it.

 

[Gramaisc]

The wet weather may have been a help in stopping all the brash on the old station platform from joining in..

..but, the scrap yard very nearly did.

 

[Gramaisc]

It may be of interest to some of the Twin Towers conspiracists to see that steel can soften in a fire.

 

[proactive]

Other businesses being affected.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...-inferno-fallout-costs-spiral-into-thousands/

 

[Gramaisc]

Some of the telephone/internet issues might be because somebody drove over one of the "green boxes".

 

[kyoto49]

Didn't realise that Horsleys? next door had also gone up. My sister had a storage unit there with some very valuable stuff in it. Mainly sentimental value, but a collection of old vinyl records that included rare Beatles first pressings and such like. To say shes devastated is an understatement. None of the sentimentally valuable stuff is replaceable

 

[Gramaisc]

Didn't realise that Horsleys? next door had also gone up. My sister had a storage unit there with some very valuable stuff in it. Mainly sentimental value, but a collection of old vinyl records that included rare Beatles first pressings and such like. To say shes devastated is an understatement. None of the sentimentally valuable stuff is replaceable

Goodwin's.

 

[photography_bloke]

Found this on my Dad's allotment (down the back of the Sandon Road) on Saturday

I good 8 inches at it's longest point - almost hit the shed!