rosa Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 56 people went to a football match to celebrate their club being promoted and never came home. RIP. Never forgotten. If you can afford to,the best way you can pay your respects is to donate to the Bradford Burns Unit. It was set up after the fire and pioneered new treatment for burns victims, but is now suffering a shortage of funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8668479.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bradford/hi/pe...000/8659492.stm RIP to those involved. I want to make a related point- this fire was probably started by a cigarette, so all those on here that smoke in football grounds, please consider the consequences of doing so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I want to make a related point- this fire was probably started by a cigarette, so all those on here that smoke in football grounds, please consider the consequences of doing so. In wooden football stands with shed loads of rubbish underneath them that is. Absolutely no consequences of smoking in league grounds nowadays as it won't catch. Well other than you'll give yourself cancer, but each to their own on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 In wooden football stands with shed loads of rubbish underneath them that is. Absolutely no consequences of smoking in league grounds nowadays as it won't catch. Well other than you'll give yourself cancer, but each to their own on that one. This is true, it was a powder keg and most people over the age of 7 smoked in those days. Still, it's a decent way to acknowlege it in a relevant way with a few pounds and I will do so when I am on a less evil computer. I have always been a bit haunted by the way it took them weeks to decide if something was a corpse or a melted plastic sheet, that brought home the horror of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosa Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 I have always been a bit haunted by the way it took them weeks to decide if something was a corpse or a melted plastic sheet, that brought home the horror of it. It's horrible little details like that, that make you realise just how gruesome it must have been in that stand. One of the nurses who was on duty that day was on the radio the other week and described how they were puzzled at first because so many people were coming in with their hands on their heads. It turned out that people were trying to cover their heads and faces from the burning debris that was falling from the roof, and the skin on their hands basically melted. You wonder how people would ever recover mentally from something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Bump 28 years ago today. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21533185 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboafc Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 i was there 2weeks before that fatal day in the main stand ,,i remember the floor was all wood , rest in peace the 56 people who lost their lives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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