Firefighters called to tackle blaze in public toilets

Firefighters were called out this morning (December 15) to tackle a fire in a public toilet block.

The crew from the Preston Circus, Brighton, station, made the short journey to the Royal Pavilion Gardens toilets at 8.11 this morning .

Buckets of water were used to extinguish the flames and the crew left the scene shortly after 8.45am.

Comments(14)

Athena says...
10:32am Sat 15 Dec 12

Yes, and . . . . ?

charlie smirke says...
11:04am Sat 15 Dec 12

This was presumably started by some half-wit. We have few enough public toilets as it is, without idiots trying to destroy the ones we do have.

mark by the sea says...
11:08am Sat 15 Dec 12

charlie smirke wrote:
This was presumably started by some half-wit. We have few enough public toilets as it is, without idiots trying to destroy the ones we do have.
Vandalism is beyond a joke, why can't we have zero tolerance with the courts, make the parents pay for the damage.. You don't get this behaviour in poor countries ..

earloflucan says...
11:35am Sat 15 Dec 12

That must have been one hell of a Curry the night before!

Martha Gunn says...
11:41am Sat 15 Dec 12

Maybe the ghost of John Morley returning to burn down the public lavatories he so hated?

beano mcbean says...
11:48am Sat 15 Dec 12

I believe there is an opportunity that can be used against young criminals. If they have been in a similar sort of trouble before then the parents can be made to pay. But when you are allowed to hire a bent lawyer so that your child can get off murder why worry about a burnt out crapper.

Lady Smith says...
12:34pm Sat 15 Dec 12

'Buckets of water were used to extinguish the flames.' I see rocket science was utilised, then..

qm says...
3:36pm Sat 15 Dec 12

mark by the sea wrote:
charlie smirke wrote:
This was presumably started by some half-wit. We have few enough public toilets as it is, without idiots trying to destroy the ones we do have.
Vandalism is beyond a joke, why can't we have zero tolerance with the courts, make the parents pay for the damage.. You don't get this behaviour in poor countries ..
This is true, in such places the public toilets are to be found behind the nearest tree . . . .

sussexram40 says...
9:27pm Sat 15 Dec 12

I hope nobody was engaging in the hobby known as cottaging at the time. A singed personal area would be very painful.

The Real Phil says...
12:48am Sun 16 Dec 12

Back in the day each public toilet had it's own attendant. This sort (or any sort) of vandalism just didn't exist. The salary of said toilet attendants was much less than the cost of repairing any damage caused by valdals. Do we see a solution here?

Somethingsarejustwrong says...
7:32am Sun 16 Dec 12

The Real Phil wrote:
Back in the day each public toilet had it's own attendant. This sort (or any sort) of vandalism just didn't exist. The salary of said toilet attendants was much less than the cost of repairing any damage caused by valdals. Do we see a solution here?
Ridiculous idea.

The real solution is to incarcerate the homeless street drinkers.

John Steed says...
8:31am Sun 16 Dec 12

qm wrote:
mark by the sea wrote:
charlie smirke wrote:
This was presumably started by some half-wit. We have few enough public toilets as it is, without idiots trying to destroy the ones we do have.
Vandalism is beyond a joke, why can't we have zero tolerance with the courts, make the parents pay for the damage.. You don't get this behaviour in poor countries ..
This is true, in such places the public toilets are to be found behind the nearest tree . . . .
eeh when I were lad, they kept trees locked in park. must have been t' stop poor foreigners widdlin behind em. No such problem these days,doaslikeys had park gates fer metal, fence an all, and poor foreigners cut down trees fer wood t' heat 'ouse. must be foreigners livin in karzi,

ButtNuggets says...
3:15pm Sun 16 Dec 12

Athena wrote:
Yes, and . . . . ?
Sorry, what is your point with this comment you have posted?

Athena says...
12:16am Mon 17 Dec 12

ButtNuggets wrote:
Athena wrote:
Yes, and . . . . ?
Sorry, what is your point with this comment you have posted?
What caused the fire? How did they find out about it? Was there much damage? If it only took buckets to put it out, then it wasn't a "blaze", but a small fire. It's a filler story about nothing.

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