JSalisbury Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) There was a basement nightclub fire in a Manchester at about 0:07 am 1/1/22 The blaze seems to start at the same time that sparkling "flares" were lit and this caused the helium balloons that covered the cealing to ignite. The fire developed rapidly, 170 evacuated 3 to hospital. Video of the incident can be seen here, it is a painfull watch https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cctv-horrifying-deansgate-bar-fire-22621660 Edited January 1 by JSalisbury spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunray Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 10 minutes ago, JSalisbury said: There was a basement nightclub fire in a Manchester at about 0:07 am 1/1/22 The blaze seems to start at the same time that sparkiing "flares" were lit and this caused the helium balloons that covered the cealing to ignite. The fire developed rapidly, 170 evacuated 3 to hospital. Video of the incident can be seen here, it is a painfull watch https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cctv-horrifying-deansgate-bar-fire-22621660 Painfull indeed, especially at the good effort to prevent it spreading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave m Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Presumably it was the ballon material that caught fire, helium being inert? Looks like some kind of real/fake foliage as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSalisbury Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 It was the balloons themselves that burnt along with the strings / tapes holding them up. You can then see this all falling as a burning mass that could entrap as people try to escape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSalisbury Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 (edited) Hi, I have just seen this video https://twitter.com/CarlosGarciaOBE/status/1477333473581047812?s=20 I didn't even think they were fit for even hand held use... Edited January 1 by JSalisbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 You have to admire their completely psychopathic confidence in that "we shall pull through" when if I had my way "we" would be banged up to contemplate the folly of handing out flares to an alcohol fuelled crowd of numpties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSalisbury Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 8 minutes ago, kerry davies said: You have to admire their completely psychopathic confidence in that "we shall pull through" when if I had my way "we" would be banged up to contemplate the folly of handing out flares to an alcohol fuelled crowd of numpties. To be fair to most of the "numpties" study https://twitter.com/CarlosGarciaOBE/status/1477333473581047812?s=20 it now looks like https://twitter.com/CarlosGarciaOBE/status/1477333590727921664?s=20 ow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSalisbury Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 And in their promotional material they have this image https://www.oneeightsix.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/events2.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dje Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 And this is why in theatre we flambar everything that might be used near pyrotechnics or sources of ignition. Nightclubs... I highly doubt it even occurred to them. We need sparklers and balloons and streamers and stuff I can get a hundred on Amazon for four quid, will that do? Yeah get those Procurement process complete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleah Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 8 hours ago, dje said: And this is why in theatre we flambar everything that might be used near pyrotechnics or sources of ignition. Nightclubs... I highly doubt it even occurred to them. We need sparklers and balloons and streamers and stuff I can get a hundred on Amazon for four quid, will that do? Yeah get those Procurement process complete In a basement too! Darwin was certainly around that night. Thankfully he didn't win on this occasion... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lewis Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It is good that there were no serious injuries or fatalities, but as a result it has hardly made the news. I'd hope every TV channel would show how quickly such fires can start and from what seemingly innocuous devices... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskers Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It's even better that the fire exits were not chained shut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunray Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 1 hour ago, Whiskers said: It's even better that the fire exits were not chained shut. is that still common? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 16 hours ago, sunray said: is that still common? I was in a relatively upscale hotel a couple of weeks before Christmas, running sound for a function band. The dance floor and stage area was at a dead end of the building, with two fire exits leading off. One remained locked for the duration of the event (the reason given, when I discovered it, was "people get in through it"). The other exit was almost entirely blocked by wheelie bins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandall Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 The local Fire Officer might be interested in that explanation (one I've sadly met quite a few times over the years) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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