Posted By Bill Morrison As reported in a local newspaper today Brighton Evening Argus. A local fire station based in West Sussex, suffered a significant fire yesterday when a fire took hold and sustained 90% damage as well as a fire engine being destroyed. The article goes on to state that the site had pressurised gas canisters understood to be oxygen that began exploding. The fire is thought to have started by way of an electrical fault. Estimated loss is £500,000 for the site and £100,000 for the fire engine. Now the interesting bit, investigators discovered the fire station e had no smoke or fire alarms installed. A fire Brigade spokesman said” from a PR point of view it’s a disaster, and that it a very regrettable incident”. I wonder if they would be of the same opinion if an industrial site was to suffer a fire and had no fire or smoke alarms fitted as a regrettable incident. I doubt it very much Bill

Posted By The toecap I recall an incident many years back when a similar thing happened to a fire station. Only this time they were cooking chips when the alarm went off. The chip pan wasn't turned off and the place went up in smoke.