Oil leak leads to house fire (From Bucks Free Press)
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Oil leak leads to house fire in Medmenham
9:39am Wednesday 15th February 2012 in Marlow By Andy Carswell
This dramatic shot of the fire was sent in by a reader
FIRE engulfed a house in a residential street after an oil leak yesterday.
A total of five fire crews were called out to tackle the blaze at a home in North Close, Medmenham, shortly after 4pm.
Fire broke out in an oil storage tank before spreading to the adjoining house.
Firefighters said the roof of the house was completely destroyed by the flames, with three quarters of the first floor and a quarter of the ground floor being involved in the fire.
Four crews from High Wycombe and one from Beaconsfield were at the scene for several hours to extinguish the blaze.
Comments(16)
Trip
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10:41am Wed 15 Feb 12
miccles
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10:47am Wed 15 Feb 12
Trip wrote:What a terrible thing to happen, do hope nobody was hurt, but very upsetting as you can imagine for the owners.
What sort of oil tank was it? A central heating oil tank? Worrying.
it just goes to show, assuming it was a central heating tank, that each property we all live in is connected to a main service, such as Oil, Gas, and it only takes a leak (in this case) or a cracked pipe and this happens.
Lastbastionofhope
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12:00pm Wed 15 Feb 12
HW1
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1:24pm Wed 15 Feb 12
HW1
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1:24pm Wed 15 Feb 12
miccles
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1:36pm Wed 15 Feb 12
HW1 wrote:Might depend on what appliances Marlow has.
Very bad luck indeed. Not for me to criticize the fire brigade and the outcome may not have been a lot different, but the report shows that the fire was attended by 4 machines from High Wycombe and 1 from Beaconsfield. What happened to Marlow? Yes backup would have been required but surely they would have been on the scene a lot quicker!!
deecee01
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3:10pm Wed 15 Feb 12
LouWal77
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4:19pm Wed 15 Feb 12
miccles wrote:True, they may also have already been out on a call. As far as I know Marlow is a retained station with one appliance while High Wycombe & Beaconsfield are both full time manned with more appliances which is probably why they were sent first.
HW1 wrote:Might depend on what appliances Marlow has.
Very bad luck indeed. Not for me to criticize the fire brigade and the outcome may not have been a lot different, but the report shows that the fire was attended by 4 machines from High Wycombe and 1 from Beaconsfield. What happened to Marlow? Yes backup would have been required but surely they would have been on the scene a lot quicker!!
Just glad to hear no-one was hurt.
phw11
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4:22pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Scarletto
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5:47pm Wed 15 Feb 12
piran
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6:38pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Dr Truth
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9:20pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Scarletto wrote:I hope you are not suggesting that the BFP should send a "journalist" to the scene to capture actual reaction to this fire service press release.
Is there no comment and details from householder and/or neighbours?
You are setting the bar pretty high with those kind of expectations.
Loudwater69
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10:05pm Wed 15 Feb 12
ivor
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1:43am Fri 17 Feb 12
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Maybe they would be better off with coal as its far safer...?
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Have you read Ivor’s blog today? Click on the “BLOGS” link at the top of the page.
Amersham-Normal!!
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11:58am Fri 17 Feb 12
As you know, oil and gas storage are for remote areas with no mains gas supply, however, such a simple point would not help with your inflammatory comments of a very tedious and blinkered nature.
Also, in response to your question, no, I haven't read you blogs, I would genuinely rather cut off my own leg and beat myself to death with it, then depending on the result of the comparison detailed above, choose either oil or coal to torch myself!
Bookermum says...
10:05am Wed 15 Feb 12