SY Fire Response
January 8, 2024
By Paul Homewood
I had a reply last week from the SY Fire Service about the house fire I wrote about:
It confirms my original assumption, that it was a car fire on the drive, which spread to the house.
As one commenter noted, if an EV had caught fire in the garage, rather than outside it, the whole house would have gone up in flames. A truly frightening prospect!
I have requested more details about the car involved, but they still have not responded.
I’ll post again if I hear anymore.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Well done Paul. Keep pursuing them and when you have all the facts, get it in the local rag.
It is becoming difficult to get the facts on EV car fires .
There seems to be a deliberate policy to keep the truth hidden .
The Luton car park fire had the immediate claim that it was a diesel car .
And number plate recognition that showed it to be a Diesel HYBRID was played about with as the registration has been changed onto a different car , which is still on the road now although the original car was completely destroyed .
So it might not be easy to find the truth .
Your original article talks about seeing this on Boxing Day, but the reply from SY Fire Service talks about a fire on 29 December. Or have I misunderstood?
Will this have an effect on house insurance ?
How do the neighbours feel about these fire hazards in close proximity ?
Obviously charging these things near tower blocks with highly inflammable plastic cladding must be a no no. But are enough people aware ?
There was no car fire on that drive!
Paul, they write that it started from a vehicle, then spread to the garage. Are you right in assuming that the vehicle was on the drive, and not in the garage, when it caught fire?
The burnt out car was on the drive when we passed it that day. Also the garage door was left in a tangled buckled mess, so it would have been impossible to get the car out of the garage
A quick look on Google Maps street view of 272 Haggstones Road shows a VW parked on the driveway in May 2021. Perhaps other readers can identify the model? Of course, this may not be the one which caught fire.
June 2023 – White Tesla and solar panels
To El Toro, was there really any point in your comment?
I deliberately parked in the open car park at Bristol airport rather than the multi storey in case of EV fire. Ironically as you will have read there was a fire in that open field and 11 cars were destroyed. I have heard nothing further of the cause.
Are EV’s inherently more dangerous? Here are the comprehensive guidelines regarding EV’s intended for car park operators running multi storey and underground parking
Click to access covered-car-parks-fire-safety-guidance-for-electric-vehicles.pdf
It seems quite sensible and points out the apparent low levels of EV fires could be due to the fact that most EV’s are new. However it also points out that measures need to be taken with EV fires as they are of a different magnitude to other types of vehicle fires.
Personally I think underground car parking at apartment blocks needs to be urgently examined then move onto other types of confined car parking. I am also concerned about such confined spaces as the Channel tunnel.
Judging by the intensity of the fire (plastic windows in the house appear to have melted and buckled) this must have been an EV fire – but don’t expect this information to be easily available.
Just checked the Google street view from June 2023
Looks like a Tesla to me !!
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4261816,-1.5381921,3a,49.6y,310.96h,87.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svM2eE13JLBNiRptPUsYEXA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Excellent find! Clearly, it is extremely likely that the fire was caused by this Tesla.
What a cover-up! Even a relatively small cog in the machine such as South Yorks Fire & Rescue goes out of its way to conceal the truth of the matter.
Interesting that when you go a bit further along the road the May 2021 version with the blue VW in the drive appears. In the June 2023 version the VW is parked on the road.
Either way, whoever built the extension couldn’t be bothered to specify matching bricks. Not a sign of someone to whom quality matters.
A typical ICE car has 10+ gallons (US) fuel capacity. Why is burning petroleum not enough to torch the whole house? They don’t usually burn while being parked in a garage. They are not charged like ev’s.
In more battery fun, one of Jimmy Krankie’s virtue-signalling battery hybrid islands ferries is having to run just on diesel as the battery has a fault that as yet can’t be fixed. And this means that it is running less efficiently than it would be if it was a pure diesel design.
Solar panels on the roof – a dead giveaway. Perhaps the poor owners will start to reflect on the “new energy” narrative they have been sold.
An e-bike workshop has been destroyed in an early morning fire in Sydney’s inner west, causing road closures along the suburb’s shopping strip
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/05/croydon-sydney-e-bike-workshop-fire-police-investigation-cause-battery
It looks like we’re going to be hit with a one-two combo:
1 (pre-2030): we must all get electric cars;
2 (post-2030): the spontaneous combustion of their batteries make electric cars too dangerous, therefore they must be banned.
Thank you Mr Homewood for your tireless efforts. The possible media suppression of EV fire ‘news’ is in itself an interesting story.
If Google removes the current ‘Tesla’ version of StreetView and reinstates the earlier blue VW EOS 2.0 TDI in the drive we’ll know things are really bad.
It is still not listed as an incident for that date on their website:
https://www.syfire.gov.uk/incidents/weekend-incidents-29-dec-to-1-jan-2024/
I’m still puzzled by this, and had no reply to my earlier post.
Paul’s post from the 1st January 2024 said “On Boxing Day, we passed this house on our way up to the common where we take the dogs. We go there most days, so were shocked to see this fire damage (photos taken today).On Boxing Day, there was a totally burnt out car on the drive, and also a gas van outside, presumably checking the mains were safe. The last time we went past was, I believe, Saturday, so the fire must have happened between then and Tuesday.”
So the question is, when did the fire take place? Was it a fire that occurred on 29 Dec 2023, or a fire that occurred between the 23rd and 26th Dec? And which fire are SY Fire Service replying about?