University of Nottingham blaze: The timeline
Firefighters in Nottinghamshire have released a full timeline of how a devastating fire destroyed part of the University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus.
The new GlazoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry was under construction when the blaze broke out on Friday evening.
Investigations are now underway into what sparked the fire.
Here's how it happened:
Friday, September 12
8.36pm – first call comes into Control. Two crews from Highfields sent.
8.39pm – more calls to Control reporting fire through roof. They send an aerial ladder platform (ALP) from Mansfield. A separate officer was sent to take charge as Incident Commander and Nottinghamshire Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service were informed.
8.45pm – NFRS Control room is in the process of taking 150 calls. A message from the scene requests more crews. Two crews from Stockhill were sent.
8.47pm – four calls are received reporting rubbish on fire on Belconnen Road, Bestwood Estate. One crew from Arnold is sent to this incident.
8.52pm – reports of rubbish on fire on Hucknall Road, Bulwell. One crew from Eastwood sent.
8.53pm – another officer is sent to act as command support, to help with the management of the incident. A dedicated command support vehicle (which acts as a nerve centre, has communications and radio facilities, provides a central point to book firefighters and equipment into and out of the incident ground, and provides space for the Incident Commander to work in) is sent.
8.57pm – due to the scale of the fire, a second aerial ladder platform (ALP) is requested. One from Highfields is sent.
9.05pm – reports of a house fire on Torvill Road, Wollaton. A crew from Stapleford and a Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service crew from Long Eaton attend.
9.15pm – the building is well alight. Request made to for support to ensure enough water is available to fight the fire and from electricity professionals to make sure power supplies nearby can be protected.
9.36pm – more firefighters called to the scene to make the total number of regular fire crews to 10. Eastwood, West Bridgford, Stapleford and Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service crews, Ilkeston and Long Eaton, are sent.
9.41pm – the fire is sending burning debris into the air so information to warn people of the dangers is put out at the scene, via Twitter and the press.
9.55pm – the Environment Agency is made aware of the incident. As well as the flying burning debris, a large smoke plume is going up into the sky above Nottingham and firefighters were considering the ongoing impact of firefighting operations such as the water run-off. Severn Trent water informed for the same reasons.
9.57pm – Public Health England informed.
10.03pm – Nottingham City Council’s emergency planning officer informed.
10.04pm – East Midlands Ambulance Service attend the scene as precaution due to the scale of the incident.
10.37pm – firefighters have been assessing the risks that the fire poses to other buildings nearby and gain access to one across the road from the fire to inspect it.
11.05pm – two more crews were requested taking the total to 12 crews. A crew is usually made up of five firefighters so this means that there a more than 60 firefighters are at work fighting the fire. Crews from Eastwood, Stapleford, Ashfield, Edwinstowe, Newark, Retford and Worksop go to the incident.
Saturday, September 13
12.49am – a request for assistance comes in after reports a man has fallen from height. A Retford crew that has been brought into to standby at Central Fire Station attends along with two Rapid Response Units and the Specialist Rescue Unit. Firefighters are required to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service in rescuing the man.
1am to 3am – crews continue to be moved around the county to ensure that there are enough firefighters at the scene of the university fire to deal with the blaze, that the rest of Nottinghamshire remains protected in case of any other incidents to ensure the safety of the community.
3am to 7.30am – while NFRS has had the fire contained and under control for some hours, the Control room remains busy throughout the night rearranging fire cover around the county to ensure that there is sufficient cover in other areas should other incidents occur and so that crews at the scene of the incident are relieved from firefighting duties as appropriate for their safety and to do the best job to keep working to put the fire out.
8.30am – 12 hours after the fire was first reported, fire cover has returned to relative normality while three crews remain working at the scene of the Triumph Road fire. The materials that had previously been the building continue to smoulder so firefighters continued to fight the fire from the ground and above to ensure it is entirely put out.