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The fire in East London

Comments

1. At 02:08 PM on 12 Nov 2007, wrote:

   Isn't it a bit early for the government to be burning down the olympics for the insurance?

   (Were you in the area when this message was posted? Do you have rubbishy camera-'phone pictures of the person who posted this? Send them to us at: doourjobsforus @ bbc . co . uk)

2. At 02:25 PM on 12 Nov 2007, wrote:

   Eddie, I hope this isn't going to occupy a lot of this evening's programme. As I understand it from the main ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website () There have been no injuries, the Eurostar has not been disrupted, London City Airport 5 miles away is not affected, and the Warehouse was disused. Yes, it has an interest in the it related to the site of the 2012 Olympics, but the warehouse was due to be demolished anyway. It appears the only problem at the moment is that local trains are not stopping at Hackney Wick. This is worth maybe 2 or 3 minutes at most, as it's a local news story, not a national one....

3. At 02:42 PM on 12 Nov 2007, Stewart M wrote:

   It's the smoke from the candles!!. Someone had to say it :-)

4. At 03:27 PM on 12 Nov 2007, Eddie Mair wrote:

   That's quite enough of THAT Stewart (3). And don't worry Fred (2), at this stage the fire will only make it into the news summary. We never had plans to do it in the body of the programme.

5. At 03:34 PM on 12 Nov 2007, wrote:

   I hope the Smarties haven't melted

6. At 03:55 PM on 12 Nov 2007, wrote:

   Eddie (4) I shouldn't have doubted you so much!

   BTW, I do like that third photo :)

7. At 06:59 PM on 12 Nov 2007, Chris Ghoti wrote:

   I don't think it was from PM that I learnt the most important thing about this fire (nobody was there, nobody was hurt, and the warehouse was to be demolished anyhow, as noted above) but I thought everyone might be as relieved as I was when I heard on the news that guess what

   the police are not treating this fire as a terrorist offence.

   Phew. For a while there I was seriously worried.

8. At 08:30 PM on 12 Nov 2007, Aperitif wrote:

   What fire's that then?

9. At 11:07 AM on 13 Nov 2007, Cynical Firedrake wrote:

   That would be the fire which means that the asbestos cleanup for that warehouse will now be done by the Fire Brigade rather than the Olympic contractors?

10. At 12:00 PM on 13 Nov 2007, DI Wyman wrote:

    Yeah....nice one........arse onists....no!

    Cheap clear up of asbestos........I think so?

    Discuss..........

11. At 05:19 PM on 13 Nov 2007, wrote:

    I was on the Olympic 2012 site today, and had a close-up view (2-300 yards away) of the remains of the fire.

    B . . I . . G . . !!!!!!!!

    The building had clearly been huge to start with. And the fire had been intense enough to melt the steel skeleton of the structure. Blackened struts and girders were bent over double like lengths of liquorice.

    As my architect-SO calls it, 'it went all Turkish Delight'.

    Not much left of the walls, and what there was, was buckled and collapsing all over the place.

    Security on the Olympic site is very tight, so one wonders how this could have happened... except, as the Firedrake suggests, as a means of speeding up the clearing process.

    Fifi