Fires in London and Manchester

They say the fire in Manchester has done a million dollars worth of improvements

Of course could be an insurance job. There was a South African guy in Belfast who ran a Spar shop (do you have Spar in england?)

Yes we have Spar shops in the U.K., Spain and Germany.

danny800.

The point I made earlier, there are fires every day and very few will reach the national papers as they are just of local interest.

Speaking of fires… yesterday there was a fire at a pharmaceutical factory in Coleraine and i was doing my Duke of Ed and i could see the toxic smoke quite clearly from the hills above Coleraine. 600(ish) houses had to be evacuated due to toxic smoke in the air.

of could be an insurance job. “Oh yes the builders had just taken delivery of £10 million worth of diamonds which were destroyed in the fire”.

There was a South African guy in Belfast who ran a Spar shop (do you have Spar in england?), and he was a gambler and kind of spent all the companies money. Now the shop did very well as its the only one in the nightlife areas of Belfast that is open late and hence he had a captive audience and was lifting over £5,000 per night.

Then two weeks ago there was a fire when no one happened to be in the shop and the owner was sitting next door for a pint. Fire Brigade ruled arson but could not determine the exact starter due to the shop being so badly damaged.

The owner has since been rejected insurance payout after police becoming involved and not being able to verify his location at the time of the first being started. He claimed the bar next door but their CCTV says otherwise!!

He forgot to pay 2 months of staff wages which is why this has all been made public as 20 staff are very annoyed.

I think to be honest its very unlikely that the Oxford Street London and the Manchester fire are in anyway connected, They made the news because they were both in big cities and effected transport around the area’s they were in, But im pretty sure there were other fires across the country possibly of a similar scale that week that did not make the national news.

I was led to believe the Oxford street fire was in the offices above a store not the store itself, That could be caused by anything such as a electrical fault, As to the Manchester fire as Grey Area points out such buildings become “Squats” quiet often that can lead to various fire risks, Its also convient for redevelopers that such fires happen to empty derelict buildings as it gives them a valid reason to pull them down, Make of that what you will.

I doubt either are anything to do with terrorism, Arson maybe terrorism i doubt.

The fire in Manchester was more likely to have been a spot of “unofficial urban pre-renewal” if there was any kind of criminal intent involved.

Empty and unsecured buildings in the City Centre are prone to being used as informal hostels by the homeless, which presents another possible origin for the fire.

In any case, there are quite a number of far more tempting potential targets for a terorrist in very close proximity to the building in question.

You’ll all understand if I don’t list them here, of course.

Slightly tenuous effort to make a connection? There are fires every day as I know having worked in fire insurance a long time ago. Now if these two examples had both been clothes shops selling FURS, you would have had the press all over it like hounds after a fox. Anyway, third day today, no fires reported yet?