fire in another unit. A CLOSE CALL!

[french crap fanatic]

yesterday morning i got my unit at 9.20 am the delay was me picking up a customers car.
the guys from the other units were running around and there was more than the usual going on.
"is your place ok"asked the guys from the other units?
that had no idea that i had no idea that there was a big fire in the metal works premises.
that unit is on the other side from mine but were all on the same industrial est and most units share walls and emergency exits and corridors.
by chance i had come in from the 3rd entrance and the wind was blowing the thick black smoke away from that direction!!
i also hadnt seen the road had been closed by the fire service.
once inside my place stunk of burnt plastic but was ok,i dont share any common walls or anything with the place that went up.
luckilly the boys in blue got the blaze under control very quicly and afterwards said that the dry rafters above the paint oven had spontaneously combusted,could have happend at any time but (un)luckily had happend at about 9am one of the quietest and uncongested times of the day.
were gona be visited by the fire safety officer now,it always happens after a building fire.
the easto euros on the corner have also learned a lesson not to block that corner,that were not just whinging for no reason but access has to be required 24/7 for fire trucks!!!

[Rhubarb]

Very lucky for you mate!

Poor buggers

[Deleted]

Not nice to get burnt out any time but real crap just before xmas you were lucky not to have got even water damaged

[french crap fanatic]

Nov 28, 2012 23:38:35 GMT 1 @astgte said:

Not nice to get burnt out any time but real crap just before xmas you were lucky not to have got even water damaged

yup!
apparantly theres a foot of water sitting in the back of that unit!!

[Karl]

Scary stuff


Glad your ok mate

[french crap fanatic]

by an odd concincedence my annual fire extingusher service and check up is this month,he turned up today.
i spent a couple of hours this morning clearing all the crap up from in front of the rear fire exit.i also found that the key has gone missing,so i had to get that door open by hook and crook ;D ;D ;D
between my workshop and the others on one side is a fire exit corridor in which dumbers lot have been storing engines,gearboxes tiles and other boxes of crap!!!!
they were busy getting rid of their rubbish today
now we just gota work out a way of everyone contributing to the emergency lighting in there and all will be well.
good wake up call for everyone this!!!
apparantly (i was told by dumbers)that if you have a fire exit door,it has to open and if you dont have one,then no worries!!!!
so does that mean that i can brick up the fire exit?who or what decides who gets a fire door/exit,there are 3 smaller size units on our estate which dont have fire exits!

[Deleted]

I'm not an expert but I'd say it would depend on access to main exit in case of a fire, if that's easy then probably then you wouldn't need one

[bigdave95]

IIRC you must have at least 2 entrance,exit routes, i am sure i was taught that on a fire saftey course recentley?


or maybe i dreampt it

[rpm]

Nov 29, 2012 23:24:52 GMT 1 @bigdave95 said:

IIRC you must have at least 2 entrance,exit routes, i am sure i was taught that on a fire saftey course recentley?


or maybe i dreampt it

That is the base theory but gets more complicated if you have members of public on premises. Also, site your extinguishers to allow you to get to the exits. They are there mainly to provide safe exit, not to put fires out. Put a couple more small ones in more places if you want to extinguish small fires.

Glad you are ok. Things like this are a wake up call for all of us

[bigdave95]

Nov 29, 2012 23:46:34 GMT 1 rpm said:

Nov 29, 2012 23:24:52 GMT 1 @bigdave95 said:

IIRC you must have at least 2 entrance,exit routes, i am sure i was taught that on a fire saftey course recentley?


or maybe i dreampt it

That is the base theory but gets more complicated if you have members of public on premises. Also, site your extinguishers to allow you to get to the exits. They are there mainly to provide safe exit, not to put fires out. Put a couple more small ones in more places if you want to extinguish small fires.

Glad you are ok. Things like this are a wake up call for all of us

well the building i work in has at least 9 exit's actually i can think of 11, that's for a 60 bed residential home type building

[french crap fanatic]

thanks for the info broomy and concern rpm
as i locked up tonight i noticed the new signs the fire extingusher man has put up,boy do they glow!!!!!i thought they were lit at first!!!!
the fire safety team are gona come round at some point in the next few weeks.
talking to the local councillor he said some house nearby went up during the night,it wasnt so lucky,it burnt down and has serverly damaged the houses on either side