Large Fire in Elephant and Castle 28/06/2021

[ruffneck23]

Looks pretty big

 

[BoxRoom]

Was just about to post the same thing!
Blimey. Hope no one has been hurt!

 

[platinumsage]

Looks like construction work or a vehicle maintenance place:

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[ruffneck23]

10 fire engines and 70 fire fighters according to LBC

 

[miss direct]

Some very scary clips on Twitter.

 

[IC3D]

A witness on lbc said something about a controlled? demolition shorty before

 

[skyscraper101]

Looks bad

 

[editor]

As seen from Brixton

 

[MrCurry]

What’s this about?

 

[BillRiver]

A fire in a place where something flammable was stored?

 

[MrCurry]

“
Fire, understood to have started in car workshop under railway arches, causes explosion at Elephant and Castle, London.

Four cars caught alight.

Fire still out of control.”

Unsubstantiated Twitter account @topnewsworks

 

[kalidarkone]

Large Fire in Elephant and Castle 28/06/2021

Looks pretty big :(

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[T & P]

Doesn't look like an explosives-driven explosion, more like a fire in a building that has reached something very flammable.

 

[LDC]

What’s this about?

Yeah some fire then a gas type flash rather than explosion.

 

[MrCurry]

 

[MrCurry]

...

 

[MrCurry]

Large Fire in Elephant and Castle 28/06/2021

Looks pretty big :(

www.urban75.net

Ok, my bad. Already a thread about it. Sorry all

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Looks bad. Hope no one is badly injured.

 

[T & P]

That's the trains fucked for a while. Even after the fire is completely put out, I suspect they'll have to do extensive safety checks on the line, judging by the footage of the thick smoke coming through the tracks...

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Hope Corsica Studios are OK, looks near to them.

 

[TopCat]

The railway is an elevated section with arch premises underneath with several vehicle repair places no doubt with oxy acetaline present and propane and petrol.

 

[brogdale]

The railway is an elevated section with arch premises underneath with several vehicle repair places no doubt with oxy acetaline present and propane and petrol.

yep.

 

[paulhackett]

Looks like it's two down from Lenos y Carbon in the auto parts shop. Looks like.

 

[brogdale]

Some dramatic blowback clips on twitter...

 

[Cloo]

This where Unsound was?

 

[Rebelda]

Hope there's no casualties

 

[Aeryn]

There’s a route into the shopping centre demolition site running under the lines just next to the station entrance. Where the explosion seemed to come from.

Not saying the garages aren’t on fire now of course, but the initial fire seemed closer to the station entrance than the garages are.

 

[Crispy]

The railway is an elevated section with arch premises underneath with several vehicle repair places no doubt with oxy acetaline present and propane and petrol.

NR don't let you store pressurised flammable gasses in arches and they're pretty strict about it. The car mechanics next to makerspace is all MIG/TIG for instance.
A fireball like that can easily be from liquids though.

 

[brogdale]

Some dramatic blowback clips on twitter...

Plastic bag man was a bit fucking cooler that I'd have been!

 

[T & P]

After four hours, the latest seems to be that the fire is now under control, though not yet put out.

Several hours of intense flames and heat... I wonder if the structural integrity of the arches has been compromised; in which case, there are not going to be any trains running through E&C for a long time...