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Offline Chav

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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2009, 08:04:44 PM »
I suppose it will get rid of the maggot problem  ???
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2009, 09:00:05 PM »
Death by Wheelie bin fire:

A 3 year old boy was killed in this fire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7302636.stm

More people killed here

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/12/27/wheelie-bin-arson-thugs-keep-putting-lives-at-risk-100252-20288499/

and here

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2364693.fatal_great_lever_house_fire_began_in_wheelie_bin/

In Merseyside, bin arson rose by 23 per cent between 2006 and 2008.
A report from Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority earlier this year warned wheelie bin fires caused £7.3million in damage over the two years.
In Manchester, fire chiefs estimate 3,000 wheelie bins are stolen from homes in Salford alone – and half are used in arson attacks. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue says four people have been killed in wheelie bin fires in the last four years.
Last year the service’s arson intervention officer said: ‘They are easy to set light to and people don’t think they cause much damage. But the potential for danger is there because flames from a wheelie bin can quickly reach 20ft high and endanger property while people are asleep.’
Mr Jackson said: ‘These worrying cases of bin arson across the country are putting lives at risk, devastating families and leaving a massive bill for taxpayers.
‘Yet Government agencies are in disarray. Health and safety bureaucrats instruct councils to switch to wheelie bins, but our firefighters are warning that wheelie bins are now a major cause of fires and are telling residents to keep their bins away from their house.’
He added: ‘We need a proper Government review of threat to public safety from wheelie bins and a moratorium on further rollout until that inquiry reports.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197441/Tories-ban-wheelie-bins-arson-attacks-soar.html#ixzz0VvV3BFFo

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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2009, 09:44:07 PM »
So, another cynical, sceptical negative Tobes prediction... proven entirely correct...  :(
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2009, 10:04:51 AM »
Witnessed many a burned out car - even helped move one and cut it up - shall we get rid of those?
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #24 on: November 05, 2009, 02:51:32 PM »
Hmmm.... this could bring a whole new meaning to the term "It's your turn to put the rubbish out dear!"
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2010, 06:09:28 PM »
Of course, it never happened did it...?  :-X

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ARSONISTS in Swindon caused a trail of destruction on the first few days of the Easter holidays, with more than ten separate attacks.

Firefighters were left dumbfounded after they were called out to five fires started deliberately on Easter Monday, three on Tuesday and three on Wednesday.

The first incident happened shortly after 1am on Easter Monday when a motorbike was set alight in Walcot, followed by a rubbish bin fire in Graham Street at 2.50am and a wheelie bin fire in Crombey Street at 7.45am.


http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8091612.Arsonists_go_on_a_spree_in_town/?ref=mr
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2010, 06:21:00 PM »
I was out walking this afternoon aroung the old canal at Shrivenham and was chatting to a Community Safety Officer.
They have also had a spate of fires but not in the village, only on the outskirts.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2010, 06:32:18 PM »
Maybe the bin fires were due to someone getting rid of documentary or other types of evidence?
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2010, 06:44:35 PM »
Don't know why they are surprised, it's just a bit late this year. Usually the first bit of fine weather has this effect.
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« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2010, 11:42:26 AM »
I wonder what our Representatives who sit on the Police Authority have to say about this spate of vandalism?

I am of course referring to Council Leader Rod Bluh, and Councillor Brian Ford Vice Chairman.  Oops I am out of date the website indicates that Councillor Ray Fisher is also now one of their number!

http://www.wiltshire-pa.gov.uk/index.php?option=com_contact&view=category&catid=12&Itemid=59

I wonder if their leader Cameron will dispense with this unproductive quango?  After all they earn good money from it.

It is worthy of note that access to members allowances has been removed from the site.  I guess Rod's influence on Secrecy has even reached here.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #30 on: April 11, 2010, 12:47:12 PM »
Elected Chief Constables is his Policy won't be long until you can vote in your Chief.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2010, 12:54:53 PM »
I was once told that Swindon, being a unitary authority, could have its own Police Force.  Now that I would support along with an elected Chief Constable.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #32 on: April 11, 2010, 01:13:49 PM »
Anyone know how much they get paid for being on the Police and Fire committees and how they got to be on them.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #33 on: April 11, 2010, 01:52:46 PM »
It is all on the Police and Fire Authority web sites.
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #34 on: April 11, 2010, 02:11:05 PM »
Quote from: Steve Wakefield on April 11, 2010, 01:52:46 PM
It is all on the Police and Fire Authority web sites.

I tried to find it so I could quote the link, the whole website has changed!!
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #35 on: April 11, 2010, 02:52:09 PM »
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #36 on: April 11, 2010, 02:55:58 PM »
It should be there otherwise do their FOI form they email you back quickly
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #37 on: April 11, 2010, 02:59:54 PM »
It is not there unless I need a new pair of glasses, but it was until recently maybe there have been too many comments about the members fees!!
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2010, 03:11:05 PM »
FOI it and ask why if you are that fussed?
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Re: Wheelie bin fire danger
« Reply #39 on: April 11, 2010, 03:22:31 PM »
It is definitely on the Wiltshire Police Authority Web Site
Once you have accessed this go into Members then from there to allowances.
But unless you don't want to be upset don't bother.
The amounts are staggering. Bluh gets £8K, for just being a member, which is separate from his council thousands.
Cllr B Ford gets just short of £20K as vice chairman, and for an authority of just 19 members they have 2 vice chairman.
The total bill would put another 20 at least Bobbies on the beat.
Is this the solution to your Wheelie Bin fires?
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