I'm puzzled by some of the BBC reporting - it refers to a 'Fire Service Helicopter with listening equipment'
Somehow I doubt that any Fire Service can justify a helicopter and I'm guessing they mean the Fire Service have borrowed aeroplod or the local air ambulance, but I'm intrigued by the idea of sitting in a helicopter with 'listening equipment', when helicopters overfly our house, (as the IFRRR brigade often do, following the M6), then they often drown out everything
How's that going to work then ?
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I imagine they rushed the listening equipment there in a helicopter rather than hovered above listening to their own racket?
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I got up caught up in this today, it is a apart of Greater Manchester I rarely need to visit as its about 15 miles away from me but I was doing a job for a customer of a relative. The main road is shut nearby which caused a lot of major traffic chaos.
I would imagine it would have been one of the GMP helicopters which were used although the air ambulance was involved as it took a casualty to Wythenshawe which is a major burns unit specialist hospital which caters for the North West and North Wales.
Very sad incident and a stark reminder why if we smell gas we need to report it straight away.
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Brings back rather unpleasant memories of this one from Scotland.
I remember driving past the site - the top pic in this Beeb article is how it looked - the house involved was actually between the two damaged houses you see.
Transco were unrepentant even after a 6 month trial that led to them being landed with a £15m fine.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/574946.stm
The second pic down is not the house itself, but a neighbouring house with a stylish addition to its roof.
Utterly horrid, and utterly avoidable.
Last edited by: Lygonos on Tue 26 Jun 12 at 21:53
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Airwolf had this technolodgy back in the 80's so nothing new. :-)
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Helicopter with thermal imaging equipment is good to establish the seat of a large fire. Hotter at it's core and cooler as it gets further away. Display shows the different colours - hot to not so hot. Listening equipment? Err no.
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Police now investigating an earlier "Domestic Disturbance" and treating the explosion as suspicious
tinyurl.com/76ea7oq
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I bet someone nicked the meter or piping.
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Someone interviewed on the scene yesterday mentioned a newly fitted gas boiler. Might there be a connection? LOL
Last edited by: Meldrew on Wed 27 Jun 12 at 08:08
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Looks like the Mail is doing a good job of pointing the finger of guilt while a Police inquiry is ongoing...
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>> Looks like the Mail
goo.gl/49swt (Mail report)
Last edited by: Focus on Wed 27 Jun 12 at 09:50
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Cheers Focus - the hilariously tasteful japing from the posters above must have momentarily eroded my ability to post a link ;-)
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If mains gas hadn't been invented / found until around now I guess that it wouldn't be allowed. The Health & Safety brigade would have a field day and ban it as very dangerous system.
They might even have considered banning the idea of driving around with maybe 50 litres of inflammable petrol in cars too.
Makes you think.......well, me anyway.
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Oldham Gas Explosion - Manatee
