Yes, friends of ours moved from Manchester to Corwall at the time Beko fridge-freezers came to prominence. Within a couple of months their FF caused the house to be gutted, destroyed all their possessions and killed their dog - luckily they were all okay.
An employee of a fire and rescue authority who is authorised in writing by the authority for the purposes of this section may do anything he reasonably believes to be necessary
if he reasonably believes a fire to have broken out or to be about to break out, for the purpose of extinguishing or preventing the fire or protecting life or property;
In particular, an employee of a fire and rescue authority who is authorised as mentioned in subsection (1) may under that subsection
move or break into a vehicle without the consent of its owner;
I believe ground floor flats are *not* popular due to their vulnerability to even quite young troublemakers. The optimum seems to be first floor with at least two escape routes/entrances, the fire escape only being accessible from above.
There was a bit of Video of a housing block fire in France where the cladding carried the fire up the building VERY fast, it was on the BBC news earlier.
That doesn't cut it. What's needed is a law that permits a) a vehicle to be damaged (eg rammed out the way) b) no liability for doing it. Until those are there, almost no firefighter wold want to bankrupt themselves to save lives by doing this.
How about this for a possible solution? A sign on the access road saying: CRUSH ZONE You may park here for 20 minutes max If emergency access is required your vehicle may be damaged or destroyed without recompense.
Then all you need is a ramming fire truck. People can park there if they want, and they know the price.
That was used on another tower block that had a spreading fire. The information released on this one is that the cladding is two sheets of aluminium with a polyethylene core. This has been linked to fires in other parts of the world.
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