Birmingham: £6million blaze sparked by a Chinese lantern
 

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These lanterns must be made Illegal

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Before the single lantern landed

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"Smoke rises over the Birmingham skyline
earlier today. Smethwick sits on the edge
of the UK's second-largest city"

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Criminal Lantern

How did they know it was a chinese lantern that caused it?

It was filmed as it went down on the Plastic Site.




Ban the Evil Laterns

I don't know why they're legal in the first place... it's essentially the same as setting fire to a place miles away. And really lethal to cattle, too.

plus they aren't that pretty.

Bang On Right
Wise Shaun

I wanna see the video

Ahh I remember when one of those was in the sky round here and me and gav were pissed and convinced ourselves that it was either a UFO or a plane on fire about to crash :joker:

you're thinking of the concorde crash, vicky, and hundreds of people died :mad:

On the link
first post

there's no video of the lantern actually landing there though. On that article anyway.

A Chinese lantern landed on a stable near here a couple of years ago and two horses died in the fire. They're bloody lethal.

yeah one nearly set someones tree on fire next door

scary times

me too but on slow motion

I'm sorry but I find the idea that a small Chinese lantern could start a fire of this magnitude a little hard to believe. It's a good excuse though but the term inside job or Insurance job springs to mind .

Who knows they may have used the cover of Chinese lanterns but seriously this was probably a well planned insurance job.

You think a tiny flame can't start a big blaze? Really?

After the fire at the stable I referred to a few posts back, the Fire Brigade found the wire from the lantern in the burned out building. Also, Richard Bacon MP raised the subject of Chinese Lanterns at PMQ a couple of years ago after several farmers in East Anglia had their crops destroyed by fires caused by Chinese lanterns.

Actually they were suspected Chinese lanterns but eventually they were proved to be UFO's.........!!!!!:spin:

Why not its a Flame
with plastic around it
it lands on the wrong place.


As for insurance
thats being checked, as normal