Why are construction equipment fires increasing?
03 September 2021
Insurers and fire chiefs are warning that they have seen a recent spike in the number of fires breaking out in off road construction equipment as contractors come under mounting pressure to complete projects delayed by Covid lockdowns. Lucy Barnard finds out why.
When a tracked excavator caught fire in Wool, a small village in southern England, on March 2 this year, emitting plumes of black smoke and fierce orange flames, firefighters who attended the scene used breathing apparatus to extinguish the flames with hose reel jets.
But less than 24 hours later,…
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