Firefighters tackle Southend fire

Fire crews in Cichester Road Fire crews in Cichester Road

FIREFIGHTERS were called a blaze on the 11th floor of a tower of flats after a boiler exploded.


The top of Chichester Road was closed off at rush hour last night and 35 firefighters were scrambled to the block of flats at about 4.50pm.
 

It is understood that a boiler explosion caused the fire, but there were no injuries and the fire was quelled by 5.30pm.
 

Peter Bennett, the fire officer in charge at the scene, said: “People will question why we’ve got so many engines down here and have closed the road and a bus route, but there was a real potential for disaster here."


He added that nobody had to be evacuated from the tower of flats.
 

Comments(20)

asbo in a coma says...
9:46pm Thu 21 Mar 13

burn quantocks burn. barbecued smackheads. jayman's clients going up in smoke

jayman says...
10:03pm Thu 21 Mar 13

asbo in a coma..

I work in a residential unit that specialises in forensic mental health.

I have taken the time to study your input in the comments on this site and I have carefully worked out what kind of person you are and how you can be best helped... I may be seeing you in a professional setting in the 'not so distant future'.

until then.. enjoy the ride to the bottom.

jayman says...
10:03pm Thu 21 Mar 13

asbo in a coma..

I work in a residential unit that specialises in forensic mental health.

I have taken the time to study your input in the comments on this site and I have carefully worked out what kind of person you are and how you can be best helped... I may be seeing you in a professional setting in the 'not so distant future'.

until then.. enjoy the ride to the bottom.

asbo in a coma says...
10:10pm Thu 21 Mar 13

think i'd rather take my chances jumping out of the top floor window of the crack towers inferno (i can but hope)

asbo in a coma says...
10:19pm Thu 21 Mar 13

jayman's monkeys or quantock junkies?

jayman says...
10:20pm Thu 21 Mar 13

asbo in a coma wrote:
think i'd rather take my chances jumping out of the top floor window of the crack towers inferno (i can but hope)
I was referring to the decline in your mental well-being as is evident in your posts..

asbo in a coma says...
10:25pm Thu 21 Mar 13

jayman wrote:
asbo in a coma wrote:
think i'd rather take my chances jumping out of the top floor window of the crack towers inferno (i can but hope)
I was referring to the decline in your mental well-being as is evident in your posts..
suicide is painless

jayman says...
10:28pm Thu 21 Mar 13

asbo in a coma wrote:
jayman's monkeys or quantock junkies?
Once again, speak to your GP. I'm sure he will refer you on to a reliant professional.

I don't work with drug addicts or active criminals.

I also refuse to work with right wing trash. To which end you are not as yet 'stable' enough to enjoy the highly professional and excellent care that I pride myself on providing to people who are turning their lives around...

asbo in a coma says...
10:40pm Thu 21 Mar 13

reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.

jayman says...
11:58pm Thu 21 Mar 13

asbo in a coma wrote:
reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.
asbo. you are a complete waste of my resources. there's an inanimate computer server somewhere that has just become self-aware and is filled with resent and self loathing that your unfathomable and incoherent ramblings are being stored on its innards..

You are an oxygen thief, your a collection of misallocated protein molecules that have randomly assembled to form the standard model of a half wit Tory voter. One who spends vast amounts of time, commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of because your apparent 'personality disorder' compels you to seek negative reactions from people who you don't know, with the full protection of anonymity without any desire to do any 'good' or represent any 'cause' because that would not provide you with the buzz that your personality disorder rewards you with when you make right wing comments on a website about an event that luckily no one was hurt in....

now p1ss off you pest.

SBSP87 says...
1:33am Fri 22 Mar 13

jayman wrote:
asbo in a coma wrote: reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.
asbo. you are a complete waste of my resources. there's an inanimate computer server somewhere that has just become self-aware and is filled with resent and self loathing that your unfathomable and incoherent ramblings are being stored on its innards.. You are an oxygen thief, your a collection of misallocated protein molecules that have randomly assembled to form the standard model of a half wit Tory voter. One who spends vast amounts of time, commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of because your apparent 'personality disorder' compels you to seek negative reactions from people who you don't know, with the full protection of anonymity without any desire to do any 'good' or represent any 'cause' because that would not provide you with the buzz that your personality disorder rewards you with when you make right wing comments on a website about an event that luckily no one was hurt in.... now p1ss off you pest.
WTF!! Please Don't Refer To Asbo In A Coma With A Personality Disorder. Clearly Your One Of Those Mental Health Workers That Discriminate Against People With BPD

Joe Wildman-Clark says...
8:07am Fri 22 Mar 13

I thought this story was about a fire and not two faceless people attacking each other from behind a computer screen.

Think the echo might want to delete all the above and lock this story.

asbo in a coma says...
8:14am Fri 22 Mar 13

jayman wrote:
asbo in a coma wrote:
reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.
asbo. you are a complete waste of my resources. there's an inanimate computer server somewhere that has just become self-aware and is filled with resent and self loathing that your unfathomable and incoherent ramblings are being stored on its innards..

You are an oxygen thief, your a collection of misallocated protein molecules that have randomly assembled to form the standard model of a half wit Tory voter. One who spends vast amounts of time, commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of because your apparent 'personality disorder' compels you to seek negative reactions from people who you don't know, with the full protection of anonymity without any desire to do any 'good' or represent any 'cause' because that would not provide you with the buzz that your personality disorder rewards you with when you make right wing comments on a website about an event that luckily no one was hurt in....

now p1ss off you pest.
see what i mean about the politics. there you go again.

saddo99 says...
9:31am Fri 22 Mar 13

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. You don't have to be mad to write on here...but it helps!

Blackblood says...
10:21am Fri 22 Mar 13

jayman wrote:
asbo in a coma wrote:
reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.
asbo. you are a complete waste of my resources. there's an inanimate computer server somewhere that has just become self-aware and is filled with resent and self loathing that your unfathomable and incoherent ramblings are being stored on its innards..

You are an oxygen thief, your a collection of misallocated protein molecules that have randomly assembled to form the standard model of a half wit Tory voter. One who spends vast amounts of time, commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of because your apparent 'personality disorder' compels you to seek negative reactions from people who you don't know, with the full protection of anonymity without any desire to do any 'good' or represent any 'cause' because that would not provide you with the buzz that your personality disorder rewards you with when you make right wing comments on a website about an event that luckily no one was hurt in....

now p1ss off you pest.
That poster 'asbo' doesn't post on any topics. Just insults other posters. They're a typical know-nowt scrote.

jayman says...
1:01pm Fri 22 Mar 13

SBSP87 wrote:
jayman wrote:
asbo in a coma wrote: reverting to type eh. politics coursing through every breath you take and every career move you make. bring on the revolution.
asbo. you are a complete waste of my resources. there's an inanimate computer server somewhere that has just become self-aware and is filled with resent and self loathing that your unfathomable and incoherent ramblings are being stored on its innards.. You are an oxygen thief, your a collection of misallocated protein molecules that have randomly assembled to form the standard model of a half wit Tory voter. One who spends vast amounts of time, commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of because your apparent 'personality disorder' compels you to seek negative reactions from people who you don't know, with the full protection of anonymity without any desire to do any 'good' or represent any 'cause' because that would not provide you with the buzz that your personality disorder rewards you with when you make right wing comments on a website about an event that luckily no one was hurt in.... now p1ss off you pest.
WTF!! Please Don't Refer To Asbo In A Coma With A Personality Disorder. Clearly Your One Of Those Mental Health Workers That Discriminate Against People With BPD
who says I was referring to 'borderline personality disorder'

the term 'personality disorder' relates to scores of individual disorders.

Asbo is a contender for 'Narcissistic personality disorder' Google it to find out what I mean...

asbo in a coma says...
5:21pm Fri 22 Mar 13

your CSE in psychology's being put to good use obviously

Mike Smith says...
10:51pm Fri 22 Mar 13

asbo in a coma, it is a pretty sick thing to make jokes about a fire in a tower block. Innocent people could have lost their homes, or their lives, to say nothing of the risks taken by our brave fire services, who put their lives on the line to help save life and property. I live in one of these tower blocks, and I find your comments quite disgusting. Perhaps you should volunteer to work with some of the disadvantaged of our town, and then you might learn what life is really like for those less fortunate than yourself.

asbo in a coma says...
11:04pm Fri 22 Mar 13

i personally feel southend would only be improved by the levelling of the ghettos on queensway. you want to live in the town centre then pay a market rent. by disadvantaged do you mean those with heroin addictions?

Mike Smith says...
4:07pm Sat 23 Mar 13

I am not sure that all heroin addicts are disadvantaged, some of them come from the homes of rich MPs and Lords. If you want to deal with addicts, I would suggest that reducing the nicotine addicts would save more lives and produce greater cost savings than limiting yourself to heroin addiction. Incidentally, you might be interested to know that this fire was not caused by a boiler, but by a discarded cigarette butt.

Addicts of different substances also may be "disadvantaged", but I was thinking far wider, to those who may suffer from disabilities, from ill health, from being deprived in some way, or the subject of sexual or racial abuse. There are many in our town who need help and are missing out on material or social welfare through no fault of their own.

As a leaseholder, I paid the market rate for my flat. I do not agree with you that I live in a "ghetto", but I believe many in our country are suffering from the lack of suitable housing. Rents and house prices are too high for the average family in most parts of the country. In Southend there are over 6,000 people on the housing waiting list. Demolishing usable homes is, I think, the last thing you should be suggesting.

Making yourself a spokesman for the bigots and the stupid does not help the situation, which is why you are too embarrassed to use your real name?

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