Luton Car Park Fire Update

By Paul Homewood

There’s some more footage of the Luton fire, which gives a much clearer idea of just how big and explosive it was:

https://twitter.com/BabylonBulletin/status/1711879370741067949

https://twitter.com/FanHubHatter/status/1712043494598902266

https://twitter.com/omario_omari/status/1711865889295937959

https://twitter.com/CHSandhu886/status/1711875340614644195

It has been claimed by the Fire Service that the fire started on a Range Rover diesel, but experts are dismissive of this.

For instance, AA technical expert Greg Carter said the most common cause of car fires is an electrical fault with the 12-volt battery system. But he added that diesel is “much less flammable” than petrol and in a car it takes “intense pressure or sustained flame” to ignite diesel.

Regardless of the initial cause, it is difficult to see how the fire could have spread so rapidly without EVs being involved. According to Andy Hopkinson of the Bedfordshire Fire Service, within ten minutes, the fire had already spread across a “large number of vehicles and a number of floors”.

Can anyone honestly remember such a fire in a multi-storey car park before?

We should not regard it as a coincidence that Sydney Airport had its own electric car fire in its car park just a month ago: