Stockholm Spireite, on 16 February 2019 - 08:41 PM, said:
The fire brigade use that clip for training purposes to show how quickly quickly buildings and structures can be engulfed, depending on their shape and structure.
There's also harrowing testimony from the emergency services about how they couldn't reach some in the stands as the sheer heat from the fire repelled them. I feel great sorrow for a group of people who were trained and ready to respond, but couldn't. I've no idea how they carried that burden, desite being helpless in that situation.
There's also harrowing testimony from the emergency services about how they couldn't reach some in the stands as the sheer heat from the fire repelled them. I feel great sorrow for a group of people who were trained and ready to respond, but couldn't. I've no idea how they carried that burden, desite being helpless in that situation.
The fact is there are so many variables that affect fire development and behaviour, all the video shows us is how that exact same building will behave in the exact same circumstances. A change of wind direction, fire starting in a different place, fuel against a different wall, any subtle change can lead to a completely different outcome. Once the fire caught hold it was a massive load of fuel with an unlimited supply of oxygen with a good ten minutes or so to grow completely unchallenged, almost impossible to stop in those circumstances.
The heat generated is incredible, you can see people’s clothes beginning to smoke when they are yards away from the fire, add into that the standard of fire kit was very different in those days they were probably still wearing plastic leggings and thin leather gloves, almost no thermal protection at all.