English Football stadium burns

[the squid of despair]

Was this big news when it happened? Does anyone know any more details on this?

http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1202172001/People_Get_Caught_on_Fire_After_a_Soccer_Stadium_I gnites

[Uganja]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2523000/2523561.stm

Theres a report from when it happened, it was probably pretty big news........... in 1985, considering 56 people were confirmed dead

[Calienta]

56 people :|

On the video it looks like everyone managed to escape. That's so sad.

[Grendel]

I remember that... :(

Not funny, Tung, not funny at all.

56 people :|

On the video it looks like everyone managed to escape. That's so sad.

The people at the front all escaped the people at the back had to exit through a narrow corridor, and that's where the fatalities occured. They died of smoke inhalation.

[swiss miss]

yes it was a big thing squidly, i dont remember it at the time (being only 5) but they commemorate the event and i think im right in saying that lessons were actually learnt from the disaster and it changed the way football stadia were built - it took heysel and hillsborough (to name but another two) for further improvements to be made.

Hindsight is the most precious commodity........

[Dymond]

I actually remember this.. It was a big deal then.

[the squid of despair]

I thought it was amazing how quickly it burned. I'm sure the video makes it seem a little faster, or did it really only take about 5 min?

EDIT- I guess it was that quick. Here's video with a time stamp...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5953205804572781986&q=Bradford+stadium+fire&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[hoos]

HOLY CRAP THAT GUY WAS ON FIRE

Wow that's crazy.

[Juicy Fruit]

Its Unfortunate that such things have too occur in order for humans to learn.

[kizkiz]

Whole stadium was wooden.
Not surprising it went up so quickly