Canal boat fire, Paddington.

[Ray T]

 

[David Mack]

Passer by filming, but nobody moving the adjacent boats out of the way to prevent the fire spreading!

And the fire hose jet from the other side of the canal mostly passing right over the boat and doing little to extinguish the fire.

[Jon57]

49 minutes ago, Ray T said:

 

This could cause crt loads of problems if it found the boat is found not to be properly licensed. The local residents won't be happy if they are at risk. Crt will be under the cosh if it gets out of hand with boat catching fire 😩

 

 

 

[Mike Tee]

And presumably there was fuel in the generator which was just left within feet of a fairly big blaze. I'm surprised (or maybe I'm not!) that somebody got away with leaving all that crap on the bank in the middle of London. Wonder how long the burnt out shell will stay there. If no insurance, the owner will just walk away. After crowd funding of course.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

From what I can see this is under the flyover and not residential. 
Maybe a mile from Little Venice. 
 

Not sure mind

2 hours ago, Mike Tee said:

If no insurance, the owner will just walk away.

let’s hope the owner was able to walk away and weren’t on boat

[David Mack]

And slightly surprisingly, although there is a stoppage further along the Paddington Arm at Northolt for a sunken boat, the canal here seems to have remained open throughout.

[Ewan123]

8 hours ago, Mike Tee said:

After crowd funding of course.

https://gofund.me/20b8fcb6?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3MPW6KAAYGo5Uk54mN_Om4mcz17DJPiyvpihNqGd3c-CxMexqfUupi2lM_aem__leaivuibq4x8Tr65UzymQ

6 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

let’s hope the owner was able to walk away and weren’t on boat

From reports on Facebook, no one was hurt 👍

[BoatinglifeupNorth]

Just seen a post on Facebook about a fire yesterday with two burnt out boats. The second picture looks same location by the looks and can be seen beyond the plastic in the first photo. Two fires on the same day?

 

Edited July 14, 2024 by BoatinglifeupNorth

[Mike Tee]

 "and insurance coverage is insufficient to cover the costs of repair or replacement" - so who's fault is that? Underinsured - one of life's choices.

[LadyG]

13 hours ago, David Mack said:

Passer by filming, but nobody moving the adjacent boats out of the way to prevent the fire spreading!

And the fire hose jet from the other side of the canal mostly passing right over the boat and doing little to extinguish the fire.

I guess the boats are nose to tail so not easy to move adjacent vessels.

One  effect of water is to lower the temperature which could help, obviously throwing half a bucket on the blaze is useless, but i am surprised at the intensity and the fumes, i suspect this could be related to a petrol fuelled conflagration.

[Gybe Ho]

On 14/07/2024 at 11:34, David Mack said:

Passer by filming, but nobody moving the adjacent boats out of the way to prevent the fire spreading!

And the fire hose jet from the other side of the canal mostly passing right over the boat and doing little to extinguish the fire.

 

The radiated heat from the fire would have made it difficult to approach the aft mooring rope of the narrow boat upwind of the boat on fire. When GRP is aflame it is difficult to extinguish, boats sometimes burn to the waterline.

 

I got involved with a marina fire in Portsmouth, a botched rewiring of an anchor windlass cable triggered a constructive loss of a nice 40ft sailing yacht. Standard practice in that part of the world is to sink or tow the blazing craft clear if possible. I got there a couple of minutes ahead of the marina night watchman who arrived towing a fire fighting pump behind a quad bike. I untied a couple of adjacent yachts and cast them adrift for other people further down the marina to catch.

 

Most people do stand around inactive, it is human nature. I am surprised the fire bridge did not divert some of their water supply to cool down the metal narrowboat, I wonder that their training prioritises?

[magnetman]

The generator is locked up with a big chain. This may have been the target for the hose. Maybe nobody had bolt croppers on the towpath so it could not be quickly moved far when the fire started. 

 

The burnt narrow Boat seems to be in a completely different place. In the fire video there is a steel narrow Boat with its back end visible but the other is burnt at the front.

 

Two separate incidents ? 

 

 

[Tony Brooks]

1 hour ago, magnetman said:

Two separate incidents ? 

 

If you look at a preceding photo of the burned cruiser, I think you can see the blue and burned narrowboat about fur boats further up, outside the dark grey building, just as the main photo of the narrowboat shows.

[BoatinglifeupNorth]

7 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

If you look at a preceding photo of the burned cruiser, I think you can see the blue and burned narrowboat about fur boats further up, outside the dark grey building, just as the main photo of the narrowboat shows.

That’s what I said, two different fires? Arsonists at play on that stretch?????

[Gybe Ho]

24 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:

That’s what I said, two different fires? Arsonists at play on that stretch?????

 

Can a narrowboat be fitted with laminate glass? It is harder to shatter than toughened glass.

[Peanut]

9 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

 

Can a narrowboat be fitted with laminate glass? It is harder to shatter than toughened glass.

Of course, laminate glass could be specified, or even retrofitted to old frames if there was room in them. An arsonist would have little trouble pouring an accelerant down the mushroom vents, though.