Funny how buildings go on fire at times when no-one is supposed to be there - late at night, weekends... and especially school holidays -
https://www.merseyfire.gov.uk/aspx/pages/reports/pdf/arson_in_schools.pdf
Glasgow's School of Art, near midnight on Friday 15 June 2018:
Liverpool's Littlewoods Pools building, Sunday 2 September 2018:
Brazil's National Museum - same time as Liverpool:
There's now a database of fires in UK heritage buildings:
https://www.fireprotect.me.uk/fires2018.html
And then there are the textile warehouses that combust when there's a recession...
And in Birmingham (UK) a decade or two ago I seem to recall empty warehouses on the ring road that were listed buildings but stood in the way of some local authority development plan and - whoof! up they went in flames, nobody caught.
I suppose that if I composed a pamphlet titled "Arson for Fun and Profit" I'd be in trouble?
2 comments:
There were some dubious fires during the last couple of firemans strikes.
In our area over the years there have been a number of fires in empty and inconvenient buildings. Older buildings, not particularly important but they had a place in local history.
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