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[crystal palace fireworks]

Ok chaps, I don`t know if this is of any interest to display operators and the like, but if you are holding a firework display on Monday 4th June 2012, perhaps you would like to hold or orgasnise a beacon lighting event near you as part of the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the aim of which is to light 2012 beacons worldwide.

Its free to register, but the deadline for entry is 30th april 2012, lighing will take place at about 10.00pm to 10.30 pm on the night in question.



http://www.diamondju...s/REGISTER.html

[Arthur Brown]

Insured firework operators may well find that bonfires and the like are not covered, but I hope it goes well.

[crystal palace fireworks]

Insured firework operators may well find that bonfires and the like are not covered, but I hope it goes well.

Good point, but this should be OK if the fireworks were let-off before the lighting of the beacons?

[Arthur Brown]

That's for the insured to check!

At a not so distant period of celebration it is reputed that bonfire debris landed on a thatched roof and destroyed the house completely.

[crystal palace fireworks]

That's for the insured to check!

At a not so distant period of celebration it is reputed that bonfire debris landed on a thatched roof and destroyed the house completely.

It sure is and no doubt there have been isolated incidents of this nature, but most fire related incidents involving of thatched roofs come from faulty electrics (mice eating cables within the loft area) or gas appliances or chimneys from within the property, there is the possiblity of using fire retardent on thatch, but there seems little information on any trials etc.

Apparently there are about 80.000 thatched roof properties in the UK compared to the vast majority of properties using other conventional materials like tiles etc, fortunately ember fragments from bonfires floating onto thatched roofs causing fires are few and far between in the general sense of things, that said - good safety distances, observation of wind direction, damping down and general weather conditions prior to the event (drought etc) should be taken into consideration when setting up & lighting beacons or bonfires.