airy fairy wrote: » Surely these cars have smoke damage at the very least. The smoke that surrounded the village, the sky and that could be seen for miles has have some impact in this cars.
Be right back wrote: » It wouldn't be possible but to quote you, "the approach of walking away and letting it develop is not best practice".
TheChizler wrote: » Depends on where they were parked. Someone I know was in the car park, saw the fire, drove back to the open area at the south west corner and left it there. Presumably that's fine. There was very little smoke damage to the south west of the centre, the wind was westerly.
zilog_jones wrote: » It's hard to say. The west side of the 2nd level and all of the 3rd level are open, considering the distance from the fire they might just need a wash. Most cars wouldn't have been running at the time, so no fouling of air filter, etc. One person in the Examiner (or maybe Times?) today said they had left meat and fish in their car, that won't be nice after 4+ days...
TheDriver wrote: » The wind was blowing in from the link and out the back towards the village. You can see the cars burnt in that direction.
AugustusMinimus wrote: » Which end of the Link? Kinsale Roundabout end would be an easterly while City Centre End would indicate a southerly breeze.
Balanadan wrote: » Going by the logic on here, you should keep driving and send a snapchat.
Hogzy wrote: » Wind was coming from the North West so.
pwurple wrote: » Have any of you even so much as a safe pass? To requote the for dummies version.. If there is a small fire, and you can put it out, do so. If that's not possible, don't. Am I speaking Swahili here?
Stallingrad wrote: » All this talk of wind direction. If a car is sitting a few feet away from a burning car it too is going up in flames, not matter which way the wind is blowing.
zilog_jones wrote: » It's a big car park with capacity for over 1,000 cars, but the fire was in the evening so there were lots of empty spaces. Reports say that 50-60 cars have been "severely damaged", whereas around 130 are "undamaged". The debate is what sort of conditions these 130 cars are in, how significant smoke damage could be. The first few cars being removed by crane from the west end of the car park look unscathed:
zilog_jones wrote: » It's a big car park with capacity for over 1,000 cars, but the fire was in the evening so there were lots of empty spaces. Reports say that 50-60 cars have been "severely damaged", whereas around 130 are "undamaged". The debate is what sort of conditions these 130 cars are in, how significant smoke damage could be. The first few cars being removed by crane from the west end of the car park look unscathed: https://twitter.com/CorkSafetyAlert/status/1168869236443361280
Padre_Pio wrote: AHH, ME ALLOYS!!
bladespin wrote: » Never knew petrol stations specialized in putting car fires out, go figure, here's me thinking they just sold fuel, didn't know they employed advanced fire fighters.
wavert wrote: » I don't know much about lifting cars but I'm not sure is this what alloys were designed for! They should be using a proper car lifting hoist.
zilog_jones wrote: » The wheels, hubs, etc. need to be able to take the weight of the car from pretty much any angle. I'm not sure I see the problem here...
my3cents wrote: » The weight isn't the issue, unless they are using rubber hooks I can't see how they can't scuff up the face of the alloy. That said its still not a bad way of moving the cars.
Caranica wrote: » Media articles today confirming female driver and Zafira. Staying legally careful about whether car was on fire when it was parked or not. Indo says it will be a battle between the motor insurer and the car manufacturer
