History, Politics And Current Affairs

In 2024 the under construction Oceana indoor water park in Gothenburg, Sweden was nearing completion when it suddenly caught fire and subsequently exploded in a very dramatic fashion, resulting in one fatality. This is a 16 minute long mini-documentary that does a pretty good job of explaining what happened and why. Dramatic footage and explanations from the accident investigation report included:
https://youtu.be/ownv_3ovCNA?is=yeXO9pZefQXrjTSZ

Apart from the mistakes made which led to the fire, I think the incident itself is also a good showcase for how fires in ”unusual” complicated structures can present rapid and dramatic fire behaviors not necessarily expected by firefighters.

Wow!

We had a fire started on a roofing project at our airport terminal by similar circumstances. Welders

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:25 pm Wow!

We had a fire started on a roofing project at our airport terminal by similar circumstances. Welders

Yeah, whenever there’s any ”hot work” being done by workers in a building there’s a dramatically higher chance of a fire breaking out than usual. A great pity that people keep being stupid with regards to such work, with substantial negative consequences.

Micael wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:07 pm

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:25 pm Wow!

We had a fire started on a roofing project at our airport terminal by similar circumstances. Welders

Yeah, whenever there’s any ”hot work” being done by workers in a building there’s a dramatically higher chance of a fire breaking out than usual. A great pity that people keep being stupid with regards to such work, with substantial negative consequences.

Ahem. If the work makes sparky-sparkies, make sure someone keeps an eye out for smoky-smokies...