Fire at Gas-holder Site

[JGD]

Seems like another over-reaction to the presence of redundant gas-holders.

Not to worry - no-one has been hurt and it's Bromley's Homesdale Road gasworks site that has gone up.

Police are treating it as suspicious.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1700 ... ad/?ref=ar

I have witnesses who can account for my whereabouts fully for the last 24 hours

[JRW]

Kent 999s
@Kent_999s
BROMLEY update: Fire possibly broke out at the old gas works, between Homesdale Road and Liddon Road, during demolition work in which oxyacetylene cutting equipment was being used. Some nearby homes are believed to have been evacuated.

12:17 PM - Oct 24, 2018

So, it got dangerous dismantling it. Good luck to the listed Livesey Hall, right next to the gasholders......

[JGD]

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1700 ... =mrb&lp=16

A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade said: “The cause of the fire is accidental and believed to be due to hot gas works being carried out.”

A fairly defintive conclusion from LFB.

[JRW]

Yup. Cutting equipment taking down the gasholders, used in an unsafe manner. By SGN. Sigh.