The Orange Monster Strikes Again!
At approximately 20 minutes until midnight on Friday 20th April 2007 a stray spark, from fireworks, ignited a shed full of chemicals and dry wood at Vodak Motor Bodies on - Street.
These fireworks were heard at the nearby Fire Station, who sent out members of its White Watch to check that the area was safe.
They arrived to find smoke billowing into the sky.
Drunken adults were setting off the fireworks in a tin can in their garden, during a Good Luck party thrown for a neighbour whom was moving house the next day.
A Mr.
- remarked on the event that, "There were young children present at that party, and seeing them adults setting off fireworks in a tin can gives the wrong impression of what they can do and doesn't teach them how to be responsible.
" The houses on the street are terraced, with the tiny gardens immediately next to each other.
Mr Mc-, the White Watch manager commented to the phone calls of worried neighbours that, "If we hear fireworks we come out and do a visual watch, for safety reasons.
Smoke is a danger anywhere, but especially in enclosed spaces like this, when windows are open because of the temperature.
" The sound of the fire being extinguished and the panicked shouts of the workers, whom live nearby, awoke many households.
One lady, Mrs.
-, said her son had been hanging out the bathroom window, giving a running account of the unfolding scene, "[He said] the fire was a huge blob of orange, and the men looked little as they stood around it.
We could all hear shouts from the garden where they had the fireworks.
It was late at night; they shouldn't have been setting them off anyway.
They kept my husband and me awake! There's no excuse and they were setting a bad example for them kids.
The smoke's come in through our windows; our towels and duvets stink of the stuff! I could hear them shouting earlier, 'Yeah, go on, let another one off!' It just wasn't right.
Mr Mc- is going to be presenting a report on it to the council.
" Eventually, the fire was extinguished and no fireworks have been sighted since.
These fireworks were heard at the nearby Fire Station, who sent out members of its White Watch to check that the area was safe.
They arrived to find smoke billowing into the sky.
Drunken adults were setting off the fireworks in a tin can in their garden, during a Good Luck party thrown for a neighbour whom was moving house the next day.
A Mr.
- remarked on the event that, "There were young children present at that party, and seeing them adults setting off fireworks in a tin can gives the wrong impression of what they can do and doesn't teach them how to be responsible.
" The houses on the street are terraced, with the tiny gardens immediately next to each other.
Mr Mc-, the White Watch manager commented to the phone calls of worried neighbours that, "If we hear fireworks we come out and do a visual watch, for safety reasons.
Smoke is a danger anywhere, but especially in enclosed spaces like this, when windows are open because of the temperature.
" The sound of the fire being extinguished and the panicked shouts of the workers, whom live nearby, awoke many households.
One lady, Mrs.
-, said her son had been hanging out the bathroom window, giving a running account of the unfolding scene, "[He said] the fire was a huge blob of orange, and the men looked little as they stood around it.
We could all hear shouts from the garden where they had the fireworks.
It was late at night; they shouldn't have been setting them off anyway.
They kept my husband and me awake! There's no excuse and they were setting a bad example for them kids.
The smoke's come in through our windows; our towels and duvets stink of the stuff! I could hear them shouting earlier, 'Yeah, go on, let another one off!' It just wasn't right.
Mr Mc- is going to be presenting a report on it to the council.
" Eventually, the fire was extinguished and no fireworks have been sighted since.
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