SarahBell Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Must be terrible for the families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Sarah Champion MP: Didcot men 'could have been rescued' A pause in the search for three men thought to have died in the Didcot power station collapse could have cost them their lives, an MP claims. Four workers died when the Oxfordshire plant collapsed on 23 February. Rotherham MP Sarah Champion said five days after the collapse the search stopped for three weeks and the men could have been alive at this point. The Health and Safety Executive said the pause was to allow owners RWE Npower to prepare a safe rescue plan. The firm said its priority had always been to find the men as quickly and safely as possible and recovery work was currently on hold because the building remained "unstable". 'People can come out' Ms Champion, who represents two of the missing men's families, said their relatives could have been alive for weeks after the building's collapse. She cited the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh in 2013, when 1,130 people died and about 2,500 injured people were rescued over a period of weeks. She said: "What angers me is in those three weeks they might have been alive, and we're now three months on." She said the emergency services had been "phenomenal" but "we know, when we've seen other disasters internationally, people can come out". "If they'd carried on the search, if they'd not stopped after four or five days, would they have been found?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36408512 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Sarah Champion MP: Didcot men 'could have been rescued' A pause in the search for three men thought to have died in the Didcot power station collapse could have cost them their lives, an MP claims. Four workers died when the Oxfordshire plant collapsed on 23 February. Rotherham MP Sarah Champion said five days after the collapse the search stopped for three weeks and the men could have been alive at this point. The Health and Safety Executive said the pause was to allow owners RWE Npower to prepare a safe rescue plan. The firm said its priority had always been to find the men as quickly and safely as possible and recovery work was currently on hold because the building remained "unstable". 'People can come out' Ms Champion, who represents two of the missing men's families, said their relatives could have been alive for weeks after the building's collapse. She cited the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh in 2013, when 1,130 people died and about 2,500 injured people were rescued over a period of weeks. She said: "What angers me is in those three weeks they might have been alive, and we're now three months on." She said the emergency services had been "phenomenal" but "we know, when we've seen other disasters internationally, people can come out". "If they'd carried on the search, if they'd not stopped after four or five days, would they have been found?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36408512 I hope Ms Champion was the first to volunteer to dig for survivors on a huge unstable mound of rubble next to a huge building liable to collapse in a similar manner. "If they'd carried on the search, if they'd not stopped after four or five days, would they have been found?" Probably not. The pile of wreckage is huge. More likely, more people would have been killed searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 If i remember correctly the ovenight temperatures in the area at the time of the collapse were in the region of -3 / -5 for many consecutive nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Military being brought in now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36477664 Seems to be a reluctance to bring the remaining structure down with explosives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Military being brought in now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36477664 Seems to be a reluctance to bring the remaining structure down with explosives. I don't think any sane person would go inside, to place explosives in the remainder of the unstable building, to demolish it in the same way as originally intended. There may be another way of doing it with explosives but that seems likely to be within the expertise of the military, not routine demoltion team. Also, perhaps the specialist knowledge about how this particular building was weakened and prepared died in the accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Tank shells. Or call in the RAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Tank shells. Or call in the RAF. Nah, more like remotely-operated vehicles placing charges around the building and demolishing it bit-by-bit that way. Unless you propose the RAF flattens the rest of Didcot, which would be no bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Remaining structure to be blasted down with explosives shortly before 6am (BST sun) (charges laid by remote control robots) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36818003 About time! Why have they chosen to blow it down in before 6am? to stop people witnessing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Remaining structure to be blasted down with explosives shortly before 6am (BST sun) (charges laid by remote control robots) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36818003 Why have they chosen to blow it down just before 6am? to prevent people witnessing it? Press release just 5hrs before the Blow Down? Roads in the area will be closed during the blast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36765999 The letter said: "Further information on the exact timing will be made public 48 hours before the controlled explosive demolition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Crowds wanting to watch would clog up the A34. The same reasons they made a last minute announcement of some Didcot cooling towers a couple of years ago being blown up early on a Sunday morning. What is your obsession with this incident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 What is your obsession with this incident?I'm a Steelworker, the sort of person who would get a start on a job like this weilding a "Gas Axe"In the opening pages of this thread i asked who the company running the job was, a name was given and i went to the company website and watched a promotional video containing footage of previous "Blow Down's" and promotional talk of "Getting ready for the Blow Down" at Didcot A. I watched the Operations Director speak, and talk about and introduce people with expertise who had been brought in, as they had never attempted a Power Station demolition before. I also learned of workers quitting the job in the days leading up to the incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I dont think there's anything x files/area 51 about the body recovery procedure- its a big old power station that fell down on workers. The company appears to have fcked up in the demolition. A few people will be going to prison I guess. I can undertstand the anguish of the family, I know the brotton guy from drinking. But - what are they do? The scale of the site is huge and ts unstable. The robot is being used as its too dangerous to put a person into the centre of the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Well, the rest is down. Corpse dogs will find the remaining bodies quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xJOr14Go8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Another angle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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