« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants  (Read 197 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 181,315
Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants
« on: August 08, 2025, 06:37:35 am »
Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants
Alice Dyer
By Alice Dyer
Deputy editor

Published 6th Aug 2025, 16:05 BST
Updated 7th Aug 2025, 12:09 BST

Firefighters believe that batteries thought to be made up of lithium-ion were the cause of an explosion on a Northamptonshire canal boat.

Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service (NFRS) were called to reports of a canal boat fire following an explosion at Gayton Marina on Tuesday August 5 just before 8.15am. Crews from Mereway, Moulton and Towcester attended the scene to find a canal boat filled with smoke.


A spokeswoman for NFRS said: “It’s believed batteries thought to be made up of lithium-ion exploded, which then developed a fire within the boat.
 

“Firefighters used breathing apparatus and hose reel jets to extinguish the flames. “Cordons were put in place to cover the canal path, due to smoke hazards, and the marina was evacuated.

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/canal-cordoned-off-and-marina-evacuated-after-boat-explodes-and-burst-into-flames-in-northants-5260199
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,905
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2025, 05:29:24 am »
No way I'd use a LI Ion battery for any substantial marine application...Bad enough in little gadgets.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline Fishrrman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,959
  • Gender: Male
  • Dumbest member of the forum
Re: Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2025, 04:27:07 pm »
Logged

Offline MeganC

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,663
  • Gender: Female
  • RUSSIA MUST BE DESTROYED!!!
Re: Canal cordoned off and marina evacuated after boat explodes and burst into flames in Northants
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2025, 04:31:48 pm »
Ooooh, such a shame to lose an old canal boat!  **nononono*
Logged
RUSSIA MUST BE DESTROYED!!!
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »