MatthewL Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 Following on from the massive fire last night in Liverpool, anyone on here have one of the estimated 1400 vehicles involved? Car dealers across the North West are going to be rubbing their hands together this next few weeks!!
stevejp Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 Following on from the massive fire last night in Liverpool, anyone on here have one of the estimated 1400 vehicles involved? Car dealers across the North West are going to be rubbing their hands together this next few weeks!! ... unlike the insurance companies!
elsiegee40 Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 ... unlike the insurance companies! Or the insurance company of an aged landrover... It seems a bit unfair that so many will have their no claims hit after this.
Arthur Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 (edited) Photos of the cars... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-42542556 Edited January 3, 2018 by Arthur 1
MatthewL Posted January 3, 2018 Author Posted January 3, 2018 This video just shows how intense it was. You don't see fires like that all the time, something has gone wrong some where.
Futurevisuals Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 I seen this in the local news - I believe it was a horse show that weekend so they had the horses etc on the bottom floor of the car-park! But yes the car dealers on the strand will be busy today!
Gibbo Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 Looking at some of the news reports, its amazing how many personal possessions just happened to be in the car. Who leaves valuables in a car in a multi storey car park, one in Liverpool at that? https://youtu.be/Vr862G6MdGM?t=3m16s
Ketlane Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 This report gives an interesting perspective: https://www.thelocal.fr/20180102/increase-in-new-years-eve-car-burnings-across-france
MatthewL Posted January 3, 2018 Author Posted January 3, 2018 More to this to as to why it has been such a large fire but similar happened in a field in Hampshire a few years ago at a festival. Thing with this was one catches fire, fuel tank burst you then have running fuel going under each car which catches fire, fuel tank on that and so on all the way down the row. Potential for thousands of litres of fuel, oil and other fluids, plus cars like to go well.
southhamster Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 Would be interesting to know if a load of electric cars would burn in the same way or whether the lack of burning liquid fuel would stop it spreading so badly. Warning: do not try this......💀
Ketlane Posted January 3, 2018 Posted January 3, 2018 The batteries may well not be good news. Lithium-ion as in loads of kit (and the Boeing Dreamliner, known to some crew as the Dreamlighter) https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/4721171/terrifying-tesla-video-shows-unstoppable-electric-car-inferno-that-took-35-firefighters-to-extinguish/ 1
kylewilliamson Posted January 4, 2018 Posted January 4, 2018 Would be interesting to know if a load of electric cars would burn in the same way or whether the lack of burning liquid fuel would stop it spreading so badly. Warning: do not try this......💀 If you watch the Grand Tour, the electric car Richard Hammond crashed - https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/pic2.jpg?strip=all&w=960 - kept burning for days as the battery cells kept exploding one after another - if the fuel ignites, it'll go boom but that'll be it, where as electric cars potentially keep exploding for days...
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