Bradford City fire disaster

[Craig_H]

Technically it's now May 12th, but didnt see a thread on this. It was 26 years ago and still to this day, i cant get over the footage which i've seen numerous times. Shocking stuff, the speed at which the fire grows and spreads

RIP to the Bradford 56. Terrible tragedy.

Some of this footage isnt entirely easy to watch.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11UP99uHMuI"]YouTube - Bradford Football Disaster - Raw Footage- 'incendio scoppiato durante una partita di calcio[/ame]

[Gibbo]

I posted something in the general twitter thread, but will repeat here. Genuinely mortified at the video, I'd forgotten just how terrible it was. RIP to the 56.

[Red_Polo]

Horrifying stuff

RIP Bradford 56

[truefan999]

Yeah it reminds you of how much football has changed at the top end and even at the lower end of the leagues. We moan about health and safety regulations and suffocating red tape etc and how much we have to pay. But when you look at stadiums like that you realise how unsafe they were and how poorly football fans were treated.

Horrific footage

[focusedonfootball]

I’m old enough to remember the Bradford fire. Final day of the season and as Bradford were involved in a promotion struggle the cameras on BBC’s Grandstand kept going around the grounds. They cut to Bradford were suddenly the cameras turn on the stand. Live on air the commentator started laughing in a Jeremy Clarkson way about people jumping up and down on some lit newspapers. Then the bloody thing erupted. Needless to say the original commentary was quickly buried. Horrific event and just crazy they way supporters tolerated lethal conditions at football grounds.

[Fernandinho]

WTF? How did that fire start??? How did 56 people die????

[Exiled_red]

Horrific

RIP

[Lee]

I'd never seen that footage before. Awful - how it spreads so quickly is unreal.

RIP.

[Fredo]

First time I'm seeing this. Tragic stuff. RIP to all the 56.

[lickedlollipop]

WTF? How did that fire start??? How did 56 people die????

someone threw a cigarete away

[lickedlollipop]

btw, i saw this footage few years ago.. and it was horrific to watch, so it is now.. it's really unbelieveable how fast fire was spreading through the stadium

YNWA, R.I.P. to the 56

[Paul.S]

WTF? How did that fire start??? How did 56 people die????

As already mentioned, most likely a discarded cigarette.

Most victims were trapped in the tunnel underneath the stand, where they found that the doors were locked.

[Fernandinho]

Why the **** did it get locked? I hope this isn't like Hillsborough where it seemed like many lifes could have been saved bar incompetence.

[Tee]

Cannot believe it has been 26 years already. Remember it vividly.

RIP. YNWA

[Imy]

WTF? How did that fire start??? How did 56 people die????

someone threw a cigarete away

As already mentioned, most likely a discarded cigarette.

Most victims were trapped in the tunnel underneath the stand, where they found that the doors were locked.

That was in the old days of wooden stands, as mentioned it was probably started via a discarded cigarette end (not maliciously - underneath the seats litter had built up, the cigarette end ignited the mess), the wooden stand caught fire as shown in the footage very quickly.

RIP 56