Big fire in Stratford, London

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I propose an arbitary 24 hour band for the next person to start a thread on it.

what music will they play?

 

[TopCat]

I do not look forward to having to breathe that smoke.

 

[trashpony]

Here's a nice pic for those of you who are too far away to see it out your window

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

what music will they play?

Disco Inferno perhaps?

 

[Wookey]

Thank the Lord for rolling news - it turns out this is a 'big pall of smoke' and 'caused by some sort of fire'.

Like shit of a shovel they are.

 

[Kanda]

Here's a nice pic for those of you who are too far away to see it out your window

...and that looks fuck all like a mushroom cloud!

Recovered Trashy?

 

[Barking_Mad]

no reports of casualties, nothing to suggest it's anything other than a fire. BBC News 24 seem sad there is no terrorist involvement.

As you were.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here's a nice pic for those of you who are too far away to see it out your window

Oh dear, if it blows towards the Gherkin they'll have to get all their windows washed

 

[TopCat]

...and that looks fuck all like a mushroom cloud!

Recovered Trashy?

The smoke is dispersing, at 12:10 it looked exactly like a mushhie cloud.

 

[kyser_soze]

...and that looks fuck all like a mushroom cloud!

Recovered Trashy?

More of a funghi cloud...you know, one of them ones what grows in layers on a dead tree trunk...

 

[marty21]

i am in hackney and can't see a thing - damn this ground floor office - i'm going to have a wander about and see if i can see something

 

[STFC]

...and that looks fuck all like a mushroom cloud!

Recovered Trashy?

It probably looked a bit like a mushroom cloud when it first went up. It's clearly been burning for a while in that picture.

 

[Crispy]

Shit, what, were people actually thinking terrrrism first off the top of their heads? It hadn't even occoured to me. It's a big fire, I thought.

 

[trashpony]

...and that looks fuck all like a mushroom cloud!

Recovered Trashy?

I didn't say it looked like a mushroom cloud

Bleugh - not really. Baby was only sleeping for 2 hours at a stretch last night

I bet you're all perky aren't you?

 

[TopCat]

 

[foamy]

The smoke is dispersing, at 12:10 it looked exactly like a mushhie cloud.

it's dispersed a long way, i can see it in NW5

 

[Kanda]

I bet you're all perky aren't you?

Yup

 

[Rogue]

Shit, what, were people actually thinking terrrrism first off the top of their heads? It hadn't even occoured to me. It's a big fire, I thought.

We live in interesting times

 

[kyser_soze]

Shit, what, were people actually thinking terrrrism first off the top of their heads? It hadn't even occoured to me. It's a big fire, I thought.

Who thinks it terrism? Find them, round the up.

 

[Kanda]

Shit, what, were people actually thinking terrrrism first off the top of their heads? It hadn't even occoured to me. It's a big fire, I thought.

It's all the talk of mushroom clouds!!! (Which are generally caused by rather large explosions I think)

 

[5t3IIa]

i am in hackney and can't see a thing - damn this ground floor office - i'm going to have a wander about and see if i can see something

Look towards the Wick and Stratford.

Oh god: can you smell it? It's a mile from Lower Clapton.

 

[Barking_Mad]

hackney wick, innit.

 

[trashpony]

Yup

Git.

We've just had an email round at work:

Please note that the large fire in East London has been identified as being in a bus garage on an industrial site in the Olympic Park near Waterden Road, E9. There are no reported casualties

This does not present any threat to XXX buildings.

The situation is being monitored and further communication will be sent as necessary.

Staff are advised to avoid the area.

 

[rutabowa]

Shit, what, were people actually thinking terrrrism first off the top of their heads? It hadn't even occoured to me. It's a big fire, I thought.

it though these things in the 1st 5 seconds after reading it, in this order:–
big fire
accident on olympic site
evel terrorists attacking olympics
spontaneous combustion
alien death ray
leakage from earth's core
global warming
light reflected through the new "shard of glass" tower

 

[J77]

I thought evil developers clearing land for the Olympics...

 

[Barking_Mad]

its in the grounds of the olympic site, apparently an old bus depot or some such nonsense.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

light reflected through the new "shard of glass" tower

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it though these things in the 1st 5 seconds after reading it, in this order:–
big fire
accident on olympic site
evel terrorists attacking olympics
spontaneous combustion
alien death ray
leakage from earth's core
global warming
light reflected through the new "shard of glass" tower

I thought in this order:

bloody big fire
tyre centre fire
petrol station fire

 

[kyser_soze]

evel terrorists attacking olympics

Not only evil (evel?), but also clearly unable to hold their collective wads...

 

[Ranbay]

ah ha ! found it..