When fire changes the conversation

Thomas Roche discusses what fires in Glasgow, Heathrow and Luton mean for the resilience of our infrastructure

The huge fire that closed Scotland's busiest railway station for ten days raises a question bigger than its cause. It is the same question raised by a substation fire at Heathrow and a car park fire at Luton Airport: how resilient is our critical infrastructure to the fires that inevitably occur around it?

The fire on Sunday 8 March broke out in a retail unit adjacent to Glasgow Central Station. Within hours, the B-listed Victorian building had partially collapsed, businesses had been destroyed...

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