Originally Posted by
DRPAM007
Wonder why with 8 fire engines and 40 firemen, it still took 3 hours to contain the Blaze and access the wreckage?
How effiecient was the emergency response?
Not sure, but there is amature video of it around on the web, eg.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ce_1206907650
This appears to show police on scene (evacuating ?) first and then what looks like an airport fire engine turning up. This looks to be the
first fire appliance tackling the blaze. Ambulance looks to have arrived at the same time.
Assuming that was the biggin hill fire engine, it looks like they got there first, and the road route from the airport doesn't look straight/quick -
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...-8&sa=N&tab=wl - and google maps reckons it's 5-6miles by road.
Without knowing where the nearest fire station is it's difficult to compare, and they might have deliberately let the airport appliance get there first (would have better capabilities in this situation than a standard red one).
I suspect that the 8 fire engines and 40 firemen were on scene for 3 hours damping down and making safe.