Fire at yard this morning - really bad but no injuries

Ludi-doodi

Ludi-doodi

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Got the yard this morning around 9am to see this

[image]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Ludi-doodi/Hopton%20Fire%20Sept%202007/Fire1.jpg[/image]

Couldn't quite take it all in. 10 stables, 1 rest room and toilet block totally desimated. Fortunately there were no horses in the any of the stables and nobody was injured. YO's mum heard that flames crackling after 5am this morning - 2 fire engines arrived and were there until just before 9am. Everything has gone.

This is a stable/tackroom
[image]http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Ludi-doodi/Hopton%20Fire%20Sept%202007/?action=view&current=Fire4.jpg[/image]

What's left of the rest room
[image]http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Ludi-doodi/Hopton%20Fire%20Sept%202007/?action=view&current=Fire3.jpg[/image]

The building on the right is my stable block and thank heavens was not damaged except for a bit of scorching - it coudl have been so much worse.[image]http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Ludi-doodi/Hopton%20Fire%20Sept%202007/?action=view&current=Fire6.jpg[/image]

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/Lu...rrent=Fire2.jpg

Recommend everyone check their insurance, a couple of people have called their insrunce company to claim for loss of tack etc. to be told they're not covered as there are more than 5 horses on the yard - this was in the small print, but not mentioned at the time the insurance was taken out! One guess as to who they're insured with!
 
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Jeez
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OMG, how lucky that none of the horses / owners were in or hurt. If that happened in the night at our yard it would be curtains for the horses, it is a personal fear of mine.
 
Thanks for fixing the pics, I don't know where I went wrong! They think it was electrical started in the rest room, but we don't know yet. The amazing thing is that it didn't leap to more stables and the fence in the last pic around the arena is comlpetely undamaged. We keep telling each other it was 'only stuff' and could have been so much worse another month down the line when more horses would have been in at night.
 
You are so lucky there is someone on site. I know execatly how you feel, I have had 3 yards where I have had horses have big fires. 1 was kids setting fire to bales, 1 an arsonist and 1 was an electrical fault thought to be something chewing thorough wires.

My poor mum turned up to the yard at 6am to see fire engines and flames every where and the road closed. The horses were in as it was winter. She shot up to the firemen understandably in a complete panic. Lucky someone had let out the horses in the stables attached to the barn.
 
Oh crikey. You must all be so relieved that there were no human/horse casualties.
 
Very glad Ludo was not on the yard, as he nearly was. Vet finally signed him off on Wednesday but he did think about doing a final IRAP injection which would have meant he'd be on stable rest. A very small bonus is that nobody keeps their saddles in their tackrooms, we have a secure lock up for them, so at the very least they won't have that big expense to add to the things they'll need to replace.
 
Oh my goodness!!! Thank goodness noone or their animals were caught up in that!!! A pony I rode as a child died in a stable fire - it was awful. Not something I will easily forget. Interesting about insurance too.
 
OMG G, thats so close to Ludo's stable.
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You are so lucky he wasnt in there. I hope Sarah gets everything sorted soon and everyone else.

Just got my times for sunday, 5.45 and 6.45
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I bet you're glad you cant come now.
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I'm glad for them - saddles are not only expense to replace but tricky too if you have a horse that is more difficult to fit.
Good news on Ludo - does this mean he is coming back into work - so glad for you, it has been a long road to recovery....
 
Before your repair may i suggest you buy a book called Guidelines for Fire Safety in equine and agricultural premises by Harry Paviour ISBN 0-900226-69-2 which is available from the British Horse Society Book Shop.

Any wiring in stables should be contained within conduit to prevent vermin etc eating it.
 
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