Police officers also assisted in the rescue attempts.
Matthew Wildman was 17 at the time and suffered from “I have never known anything like it, either before, or since. However, the fire escalated rapidly and flames became visible, and so police started to evacuate the stand. Supporters either ran upwards to the back of the stand or downwards to the pitch to escape. It occurred during a league match, on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265. He is quoted as saying: “I don’t believe the statement of [retired Detective Inspector Raymond] Falconer at all. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
Bradford City stadium fire is within the scope of WikiProject Yorkshire, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Yorkshire on Wikipedia. It was appalling that public money was given to the club while it was still owned by the same shareholders under whose direction the fire had happened. The book also raises concerns about the speed of the inquiry and the fact that it commenced a few weeks after the fire and lasted for only a few days, whereas other inquiries into similar incidents, pre and post the Bradford fire, have taken years to come to fruition and months to be heard. You could hardly breathe.”The highly flammable wooden roof, which was covered with It took less than four minutes for the entire stand to be engulfed in flames.There were no extinguishers in the stand’s passageway for fear of vandalism, and one spectator ran to the clubhouse to find one, but was overcome by smoke and others trying to escape. I don’t know where Falconer is getting this cock-and-bull story from… the inaccuracies in this report [documentary] are dumbfounding.”.Raymond Falconer’s reliability had previously been questioned by Daniel Taylor in Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. However, there is a lot in this book that troubles me about the science, or lack of it, used in the testing of the investigators’ hypothesis as to the source of the ignition. One, now re-situated to that end of the stand where the fire began, is a sculpture donated on the initial re-opening of Valley Parade in December 1986 by Sylvia Graucob, a then There is a twin memorial sculpture, unveiled on 11 May 1986, which has the names of the dead inscribed on it. Speaking at the close of the case, the Judge said:“They (the club) were at fault, no one in authority seemed to have appreciated the fire hazard. Called ‘The 56’ the play dramatises actual accounts of the Bradford City Fire with the purpose of the play showing how in times of adversity, the Football Club and the local community came together.Profits from the play’s run at The Edinburgh Fringe were donated to the Bradford Burns Unit.In 2005 Parrs Wood Press published ‘Four Minutes to Hell: The Story of the Bradford City Fire’ by author Paul Firth.The title of the book refers to the estimated time it took for the stand to be fully ablaze from the first flames being seen.On 1 May 2010 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fire the football TV show In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled ‘Bradford City – A year of healing’. At 3:40 pm, five minutes before half-time, the first sign of a fire—a glowing light—was noticed three rows from the back of block G,as reported by TV commentator Helm described the start of the fire in an interview to the “a man over from Australia visiting his son got two tickets to the game. Bradford City Stadium Fire 56 Dead & 100’s Injured. Elsewhere in Britain, only the 66 deaths at Most of the exits at the back were locked or shut, and there were no stewards present to open them, but seven were forced open or found open. However, the responsibility of the Club is, in my view, very much the greater and I apportion responsibility between the two defendants as to two-thirds on the first defendant and one-third on the third defendant.”West Yorkshire Metropolitan Borough Council was found to have failed in its duty under the Fire Precautions Act 1971. Everybody in the city was devastated, but there was an amazing number of volunteers. Some repair work was carried out, but in July 1984 the club was warned again, this time by a county council engineer, because of the club’s plans to claim for ground improvements from the Football Trust. One retired mill worker made his way to the pitch, but was walking about on fire from head to foot. A giant Whilst Bradford City initially prospered in the Second Division – only missing out on promotion to the First Division in 1988 after failing to beat At Valley Parade there are now two memorials.
IN MEMORIAM. Two or three burly men put their weight against it and smashed the gate open. Popplewell’s report was nowhere close to the quality of Lord Justice Taylor’s report after Hillsborough, and since reading it as an adult I have always been very disappointed in it and considered it a poor piece of work.”In 2014 the theatre company Funny You Should Ask (FYSA) premiered their heartfelt tribute to the 56 people who died at the fire.
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