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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: Psuedonym on March 25, 2011, 09:06:40 AM
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A fire has closed off part of Sauchiehall St in Glasgow :
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/226849-restaurant-fire-strikes-sauchiehall-street/
I often work in Glasgow and was at a job close to this site yesterday. This was pretty major and only Lady Luck prevented a few serious injuries and deaths. Have a look at the link and imagine the restaurant in the basement. A fryer went up and a member of staff thought it best to extinguish with a pan of water. Oh dear. Cheap labour and lack of fire training raises its ugly head again.
The blaze ripped up the cooking exhaust ducts and throughout the building. Currenly there a roofs missing off the main event building and the adjacent one. The street buisinesses are closing due to lack of trade, peoples homes are ruined and the insurance are stalling for some reason.
Oh hang on. The restaurant have told their insurers that the duct has needed upgrading for the last 3 years and a fire suppression system was advised to prevent this type of issue.
Meanwhile the selfish sods have cause the street to be closed.
At least the Strathclyde trainees were on hand to sort it all out and get some practical trraining instead of running around town in a truck with lights flashing and sirens blazing late for some scran!
See, glass half full !! ;D
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Best punishment is they go bust if they run a place like that - although that is of little solace to the flat occupiers, injured people, disrupted other firms, etc
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Well it is in a way Anthony- but you can bet there will be a whole load of other businesses that will lose out as unsecured creditors.
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So true, all those indirect costs of fire don't half stack up!
Of course a suitable hefty prosecution would be ideal as well.
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Best punishment is they go bust if they run a place like that - although that is of little solace to the flat occupiers, injured people, disrupted other firms, etc
On one hand yes but on the other the residents may be forced to move to an equally poor flat equally at risk and equally exploited