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vasco de gama

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-martin-fletcher-stafford-heginbotham

I remember this day vividly. Hibs versus Rangers at Easter Road with considerable aggro in and around the ground including a minor pitch invasion. Got home to read about the fire and my hoodlum bravado was shattered by an overwhelming feeling that I was just being a wee pr!ck. It is fair to say that day changed me forever.

I cannot imagine what it would be like to burn to death - the 1st episode of the new series of Game of Thrones did a fairly good job of building the horror of what it must feel like. Back in the 1990s I worked with a guy who was at the Bradford game - he never talked about it.

Anyway - this survivor is convinced it was started deliberately. I really hope not.
 
vasco de gama said:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-martin-fletcher-stafford-heginbotham

I remember this day vividly. Hibs versus Rangers at Easter Road with considerable aggro in and around the ground including a minor pitch invasion. Got home to read about the fire and my hoodlum bravado was shattered by an overwhelming feeling that I was just being a wee pr!ck. It is fair to say that day changed me forever.

I cannot imagine what it would be like to burn to death - the 1st episode of the new series of Game of Thrones did a fairly good job of building the horror of what it must feel like. Back in the 1990s I worked with a guy who was at the Bradford game - he never talked about it.

Anyway - this survivor is convinced it was started deliberately. I really hope not.
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There was an item on it this morning on the news. Other survivors are not of the same opinion. There were a number of reasons they refute the claim - which seems to rotate round the owner having had a number of fires at different businesses. I don't know if the item is online, I will see if I can find it.

The Bradford fire is used on every health and safety NEBOSH Diploma training course up and down the country. The things that went wrong that day caused so many needless deaths. Shut turnstiles, locked exit doors, old fashioned fabrication with lots of wood, poor litter maintenance and smoking in the ground...everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I have seen the full fire brigade video of the events of that afternoon. I had nightmares about it for some time after.
 
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Remember that day vividly as well..got back from the Hibs game and it was on the TV unfolding as we watched. Absolutely horrendous. I've been to see a few matches at Valley Parade over the years when I have been visiting my brother who lives in West Yorkshire, and it is now a very nice modern stadium. There is a touching memorial to the victims of that terrible disaster at the stadium as well.
 
Horrible, lightening fast tragedy. I was subjected to viewing the whole video as part of a health & safety video when I was contracting at the Scottish Exec years ago and I was actually quite pissed off after the shock subsided enough because what I'd seen was real people really dying on film. The old man, stunned, walking on the pitch in flames is the most horrific thing I've ever seen.

I'm pretty sure there's a better way to teach health & safety but it had right fucking effect on me, that's for sure.
 
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