“Ian...I wasn't moaning about it, simply implying that the length of time it took to tackle the fire indicated the size and severity of it. The slow to respond bit I was also mentioning because Bristol get's pretty congested and they were unable to come much faster because everyone was slowing down to look at it. I maybe should have made that more clear...

you don't even live here...how come you have so much to say about it?

I am sick of the fires at the scrapyard...they are dangerous and toxic and fairly frequent. I would dearly like to see the place shut down.”

“coloured smoke. not black smoke. coloured”

“well von i can' believe you are moaning about the time it took the fire service to put the fire out these men and women risk there lives and all some people can do is moan maybe they where looking to see if any of the cars had lpg tanks or if there where anything there that could kill or injury them people need to remember when they run away from a fire who runs at it they are real heros and should be treated like one and yes that yard should be moved out of town.”

“I live just behind the scrap yard in Saxon Road and if the wind is in the wrong direction it can be quite frightening when these frequent fires start. It makes one wonder - is there a benefit to anyone that these fires frequently reoccur? The costs must be enormous to the city. The yard sends filthy greasy dust into the atmoshpere and also starts up way before it is light! It should go go go.”

“So everyone wanted to know yesterday what was going on.

Where would you look, the local newspaper site.

They dont bother to update news for a further 13 hours.

how parochial...


What happens when aliens invade? Oh! It's a sunday there's no one in the office to update the news for this "world cup" city...”

“Went past this yesterday, by the time I got back up to Fishponds you could see smoke all the way up on the high street.

don't they have CCTV at this place? No suggestions on whether it was accidental or arson or kids messing around?!”

“this is apparently the fourth fire, yet I know there's been more in the 12 years I've lived behind this scrapyard. I want to know when this yard will be closed down...it's too close to residential areas and the problems created by fires and traffic worry me as a local resident. the thick black smoke belched out over the train line and the M32. the police and fire dept seemed quite slow to respond and it took well over an hour for the fire to be put out. I am very concerned about the potential dangers future fires can cause. There are often young kids mucking about in the yard, it seems to me only a matter of time before something really serious happens. there doesn't seem to be any security on the site.

do scrapyards really just catch fire on their own? if so...why isn't there a better early warning system and 24 hr security.

the yard has been a concern for some time...it's about time someone did something about it.”

“this was like the fire that happened in sims metal in avonmouth! Cars got caught on fire just like this one!”