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It’s also showing how little those posters know about how an airport really operates, and what an airports RFFS responsibilities are.
They have been known to fight local fires even outside the airport. This was the local Asda.
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As predicted in post 3500 regarding the drop off zone.
For those arriving by car, the Long and Mid-stay car parks are fully operational, and a temporary drop-off area has been established in the Mid-stay car park.
“For those travelling to the airport by rail, the DART shuttle remains out of service with replacement buses in operation.
“For those travelling to the airport by rail, the DART shuttle remains out of service with replacement buses in operation.
Not starting, it’s always that way. On rare occasions airports RFFS may be deployed to a domestic incident, but only after a tactical RA of the implications of doing so and the implications on the airfields RFFS category.
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The cars that are undamaged might be irretrievable so writing off the entire contents of the car park. Maybe around 1000 cars?
It will be interesting to see the airport's own Risk Assessment, seeing as we are mentioning these, of the implications of a fire in the car park, and procedures for dealing with it.
OK. So the large foam blaster, like the one pictured above, which one would have thought would be particularly useful in this fire in the open sided airport car park if deployed instantly, is not to be used unless two bureaucratic reviews are made. In which case, of course, the easiest thing to do is leave it to the town fire brigade to make it up the hill.
It will be interesting to see the airport's own Risk Assessment, seeing as we are mentioning these, of the implications of a fire in the car park, and procedures for dealing with it.
It will be interesting to see the airport's own Risk Assessment, seeing as we are mentioning these, of the implications of a fire in the car park, and procedures for dealing with it.
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The drop off area showing cars from the car park above. At least the signs were fire proof unlike the concrete and steel car park.
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Speaking of Risk Assessment and Insurance, it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when the claims assessor for Luton's public liability insurance looks at any subsequent claim and the fact the car park didn't have a sprinkler system installed.
Was there / is there a notice saying “ car left at drivers own risk”?
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Much greater concern would be the failings of any spray coat fire protection to the steel columns .
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Re. EV, - and no way do I support this - I am merely a messenger - if you look on YouTube, amid the media news coverage videos, and looking very much like a media report, is a video captioned something like .... Luton airport fire marks the end of EVs .... or something of that ilk. When things like that are uploaded, it is not surprising false rumour spreads and or the uninformed become the misinformed . I am not going to post the link as that itself will assist in spreading tosh.
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A fire officer said in a TV interview that many EV’s were involved in the fire. Also reported that 1000 cars were fire damaged. Not surprising really due to the shear number of cars burnt out.