Large Tyre Dump Fire

[nero2024]

there is a huge used tyre dump compound burning in the distance 14 fire engines at the scene. its started 10.30am Friday and now sat 11.40 is still burning, it caused at peak times (15hours) massive amounts of smoke drifting for 25 miles + just wondering why they did not ask for helicopter water bomb drops on this fire, the pollution was tremendous, i would have thought two or three water bomb drops would have brought this under control and put it it in a couple of hours

[gingejbee]

Location would be useful....

[nero2024]

ranskill notts

[douglas9401]

Do you have a water-bombing helicopter on standby, gingejbee? :-)

[nero2024]

its on twiiter

[nero2024]

douglas not on standby but there are used for large grassland fires so why not the massive mess ??

[gingejbee]

Perhaps 'copters with the necessary gear aren't readily available in Nottinghamshire?

[gingejbee]

douglas..you were thinking much the same as me. Unfortunately, mine are already in use abroad..

[douglas9401]

It's an ill wind...

[Zacs-Master]

Is Winnie Mandela in the area?

[itchycopark]

i was wondering that, they can summon those up for moorland fires
still i suppose its about the cost and how far off the base's,
i see the sarcastic two are on line today,

[nero2024]

lol, gives them something to do, these days your rarely get a decent answer on here,

[douglas9401]

For the benefit of the humourless, it may be that, as with different types of fire extinguishers a tyre fire can't be dealt with by the helicopter method.

[nero2024]

very good guess douglas
i just searched that and yes
" Using water and/or foam to extinguish a tire fire is often futile"

[DTCwordfan]

dampen it down with sand and grit then cover to cut off the O2

[nero2024]

its a bit large to do that ,and that would require air drops too .
https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-08-05/public-urged-to-stay-away-from-huge-fire-involving-1000-tyres-in-ranskill

[DTCwordfan]

On the Millenium, in Holland, we had an enormous tyre fire up the road, all part of the Dutch NY madness that goes on - on a standard New Year, they often lose a small fleet of cars getting burnt out for being too close to their pyres. It's also a question of -ugger the enviroment too!

We were fearful of any sparking, all the houses down the Oud Rhine being thatched.....with us at about seven or eight.

[DTCwordfan]

a 1000 tyres about the size of the Dutch one and they brought up diggers and a pile of grit to get it covered....it burned for about 3 days but at least was under control.

[choux]

The British record for a tyre fire is 13 years, at Heyope, Powys.
https://www.google.com/search?q=heyope+tyre+dump&oq=heyope&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i512j0i512j0i20i263i512j0i512j69i61j69i60l2.14306j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8