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Wolstenholme Bronze Powders , Reporting In
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Here is Stuart Padbury reporting in to A.D.O Frazer Harley and leaving him a present from the incident , unfortunately we don’t know any more about this , and does anyone recognise the fireman in the background
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I remember going to a job there in 1989 or 1990 when i was on blue watch. It was about 6 pumps. My fire kit was covered in bronze powder and I looked like an extra from Goldfinger at the end of it.
Went there quite a few times myself,whilst at both b,burn and darwen stations,anyone remember the 1litre tin of gel that was sometimes given to us to remove the powder,suppose it was like a type of swarfega..Got caught twice at darwen for cream cakes for mentioning WBP !!!!!!
white watch were on for the fatality myself and tony Clemson were the Breathing apparatus guys that took someone in to identify him
even at Blackburn it was the place you didn’t mention, as if someone did you always went. Went quite a few times first time I was in charge of traffic going across the hose lines on the road when a car decided it would be fun to go as fast as he could taking his exhaust off and bursting both lines of hose great fun turning water off in fountain, luckily didn’t need much water for those jobs .
The incident was in th 80’s. We were covered in the bronze powder not mud. it was a nightmare place to attend. The aluminium powder whilst not as messy was far more dangerous which eventually resulted in a fatality of one of the workers.
Hi Stuart.
Thanks for the entry if you look at the Item Reporting In, Steve Brown has put it on site and I have made commemt below in reference to the nature of the dirty fire-kit.
Regards Bob F
It’s Wolsenholme Bronze Powders Eccleshill Darwen,It was a nightmare of a place to firefight you were absolutely covered in the stuff, it was stored in 50 gall type steel drums and used to self combust. The only way to extinguish the stuff was to remove the drums to open air and let them burn out subsequently the jobs were usually big Breathing Apparatus incidents.
Just one amusing moment if you even mentioned the word Bronze Powders at Darwen Fire Station it was a cake buying Offence and cakes would have to be bought for all the watch.
Bob France Ret FF
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