Glasgow School of Art on fire again

[witsd]

Just breaking news at the moment:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... e-12719173

[Messy]

Unbelievable and such an awful loss .

I have used an edited version of a presentation of a Scottish Fire Services video of the 2014 fire for training for a couple of years now.

In addition to showing the cause and spread, fire service tactics are shown using excellent 3D animations.

There are photos of the inside of this magnificent building too, so those of a nervous disposition should look away now

https://youtu.be/O8bjOmqIlds

[Alexis]

Awful to see this happen again.

Thank you Messy for that fantastic link.

[fs1982]

I was in Glasgow on Saturday and saw first hand the scale of the damage this time round. That video however is brilliant (doesn't see the right word to use however) - one of the things I wondered this time round was how the fire was so well developed by the time the fire service arrived (they said when they arrived they couldn't determine where let alone how the fire started) taking into account how busy the area would have been on a Friday evening but this video shows how it could have potentially developed internally through old voids/pipework etc without being visible to anyone out on the streets.

It may only be 13 minutes but a very valuable bit of learning for me.

[witsd]

I walked past (well, 100m away is as close as you can get) last week, and there's a very strange atmosphere.

The best way I can describe it is similar to when you are on holiday, and you go into a temple or similar place of worship that you don't personally ascribe to. Everything is slightly muted, and there's an air of reverence.

Certainly worth seeing for yourself to get the full impact – the photos and videos can only show so much.