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Chemical factory fire sends smoke across London

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TWELVE fire engines were called out to a large factory fire in Greenwich in the early house of this morning.

60 firefighters tackled the blaze at a chemical processing plant in Peterboat Close, off Tunnel Avenue.

Heavy smoke billowed across south east London and a siren was sounded to alert residents to the incident.

Although the smoke from the chemical factory is not thought to be dangerous, fire chiefs advised people in the area to keep their doors and windows closed as a precaution.

Assistant Commissioner Dany Cotton, said:

“Our firefighters worked extremely hard to contain the fire, which damaged around half of a big industrial unit.”

Hear the siren that sounded at around 3.30 this morning:

Comments

  1. “The BSA respects that the fire investigation is in its early stages and that it will be sometime before all the facts about this incident emerge. However, what we do know at this stage is that, had there been a fully functioning, appropriately designed and well maintained automatic fire sprinkler system installed, then this fire is unlikely to have caused the disruption that it has.”

    Comment issued by Iain Cox, Chairman of the British Sprinkler Alliance and Chief Fire Officer for Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

  2. I had a number of dreams last night, that included. being involved being in the blitz, walking to the top of buildings to see where the siren noise was coming from.

  3. In my post last night was a planning application:

    12/1247H
    Brenttag UK Ltd. 215 Tunnel Avenue, SE10 OQW
    asking for consent for the storage of hazardous substances

    the planning officer dealing with it who can give information is jacob.jaarsma@greenwich.gov.uk and the plans are at Woolwich Library.

  4. It is about time the owners of these dangerous business were held responsible in a big way for all of these Fires which occur at Chemical Factories. They should seek the advice of the Fire Service and other official bodies and put their suggestions into practice no matter what the cost, after all you can’t put a price on people’s lives.