Motorists should avoid Brixton tonight (28th June)

[Miss Orbit]

I'd like to know where these sixty people live who were camped in a church hall, according to the BBC.

I live in a block on Crownstone Road (front door is just a few metres from the garage where the blaze took hold), and people were coming and going quite happily by 7, when I got in from work. According to one of my neighbours he'd been in and out of his nearby building all day. The trick was to walk past the police guarding the cordons, without looking at them. Then they just let you go on.

There were no police in Crownstone Road itself, tho a hose was trained on the shed with the cylinder in it. I saw people ducking under the tape blocking the area directly in front of the garage in order to reach BWL and nobody stopped them.

I imagine they closed all the surrounding roads so that if the thing did suddenly explode, they'd be able to get emergency services in fast to clear up, but they didn't seem very arsed about protecting people in the immediate area. And if they'd evacuated everyone in Crownstone Road/Springett House it would have been a darn sight more than sixty people...

 

[lang rabbie]

Lambeth is claiming they were in St Matthew's Community Centre - which I take to be the estate tenants hall not a church hall

28 June 2005

At around 11-30am on Tuesday, June 28 a fire broke out at a privately owned garage in Crownstone Road, off of Brixton Water Lane, Brixton.

Inside the garage is a gas cylinder, which as a direct result of the fire, could potentially become a safety hazard to nearby residents. Fire Brigade protocol is that the cylinder requires cooling for a period of 24 hours.

As a result of this advice, Lambeth Council has set up an emergency rest centre for residents who are unable to gain access to their properties throughout the remainder of the day. The rest centre is located at nearby St Matthew’s Community Centre.

The incident means Crownstone Road and the surrounding area may suffer disruption over the next 24 hours.

For further information residents should call the Lambeth Housing Call Centre direct on: 020 7926 6000.

 

[Allan]

It's funny how when Effra Road was blocked off and there was no traffic everyone still walked on the pavement.

Not me. Unconventional trend-bucker that I am I proudly walked down the middle of the road.

What an anarchist I am!