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| nicam Member Since: 14 Dec 2007 Location: deepest Lancashire Posts: 156  
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After all the publicity about their dryers;
"Explosions were heard as fire engulfed 52 lorry trailers at the headquarters of domestic appliance giant Whirlpool." Don`t drive faster than your angel can fly! |
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30th Aug 2019 11:15am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3499  
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It looked like one hell of a fire......
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30th Aug 2019 11:54am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3499
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I read that the Ocado fire was made worse by the maintenance staff turning the sprinklers off. I suppose they thought they could put the fire out and the water damage from the sprinklers would cause a lot of damage. Unlike the fire that gutted the place
I’m not sure the loss adjuster would take to kindly to that kind of intervention? Back to Peterborough, I had no idea Whirlpool owned Hotpoint (so the BBC website says)? You live and you learn. |
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30th Aug 2019 12:36pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17382 
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Oh, yes, Whirlpool owns Hotpoint and Indesit amongst the best known brands, but also (according to their website) Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Gladiator GarageWorks, Inglis, Estate, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Ignis, Diqua, Affresh, Acros, Yummly and Consul brands. They are the world's largest manufacturer of home appliances.
Which makes you wonder why they had so many spares stored in lorry trailers rather than a warehouse! The Ocado fire was greatly exacerbated by stupidity at many levels, and as you note the staff had/did turned off the sprinklers, and I seem to recall that the fire had been established and was known to be burning for quite a while before the fire brigade was summoned. Quite an appalling failure of management really. |
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30th Aug 2019 12:54pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3499
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As blackwolf says, an appalling failure of management.
One of the worst case studies of the above management strategy is the Piper Alpha disaster. The surrounding rigs pumped oil / gas towards the clearly burning rig and no one had the guts to press the emergency stop button to stop operations because of the monetary loss to the company. I expect Ocado management were feeling exactly the same way. Just thank God no one was killed, unlike Piper Alpha. That kind of mindset has to come from the top. |
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30th Aug 2019 1:31pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5167
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I saw a clip and I thought that was one mega fire! Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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30th Aug 2019 3:15pm |
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| v8bob Member Since: 14 Mar 2018 Location: Midlands Posts: 317 
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Is it just me then...
I wonder what happened to all the tumble driers they had to buy back? Did they leave them in containers and call them spares  |
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30th Aug 2019 4:30pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3499
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It would seem there are suspects:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49530665 Although I did like the idea of it being a good way of getting rid of the returns  |
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30th Aug 2019 6:05pm |
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