Guest Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I'd like to ask, was anyone at the 2000 fire? Or, do you have any pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Fire? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There was a fire at Thorpe Park in the yar 2000 which damaged Wicked Witchees Haunt , Tropical Travels and part of KFC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 My sister was working in Sweet City (now Quiksilver) when it happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabz Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 does anyone own or know anybody with pictures of the fire? maybe even a video (I doubt it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 ClickA video on BBC News. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 I came a month after that (6 years ago) and there was a huge black bit near the center of thorpe park! I was only 6 at the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabz Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 ClickA video on BBC News. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> meh, ive seen that report so many times. Anyone got anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Do you think Witches Wicked Haunt will come back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 No I don't think that ride will ever come back, although I would like to see more dark rides at the park in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 No I don't think that ride will ever come back, although I would like to see more dark rides at the park in the future. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> did they emergency stop the rides then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cringle Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 (edited) ^Well if there was a power loss, the ride would stop anyway and the attendants would have had to run around quickly and evacuate everyone immediatly. You'll be surprised at the amount of training that the attendants/ Ops get actually. (although a fire doesnt nessersarily mean there will be a powerloss)I remember seeing the news at my friends house, I was well shocked. There was a video taken of the aftermath of the fire taken from Tidal Wave on SP, and the result of the fire looked rather catastrophic... So its safe to say it won't be returning, as well as the fact that Detonator and Nemesis Inferno are now in that area. I do hope they build another dark 'scary themed' ride soon though... Its what thorpe lack imo.Click 'ere for the Topic on SP and this is the quote... The aftermath of the Thorpe Park Fire. Credit to Gentle Ben for editing, and micky p for filming.(there is a bit of random X:/ No Way Out footage in the begining of the Video, just sit it out and you'll get onto the WWH bit) Edited December 29, 2006 by Cringle Fred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 There are two power sources for Thorpe Park. One from Chertsey, and one from Staines. They both enter Thorpe Park through Monks Walk, and I would expect that every ride has backup power, from one source or another. Wold be unlikely (but not impossible) that the power would stop, just because of a Fire. All the power is in cables underground, so it's unlikely that the power cables would be burnt as much to stop providing.Maybe I should be called Thorpe Park Expert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 The power can and has stoped before, rides which need it to get riders down such as slammer would have emergency source of power to be able to just rotate the ride to the right angle and lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richy2001 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I found a video on youtube, but its got a boring video of x:/ no way out first? but afterwards its got pics an video's of the fire dammage at TP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepie Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Yeh that's a really interesting video actually, that's been posted before. Thanks for reminding us- I actually forgot about that video.I like looking at where Det and Inferno are now. Haha, it's wierd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richy2001 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 wasnt the fire due to someone smoking in the queue line??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 That was the official cause. In the Mill queue line, some one stubbed it out on the wood, and it set fire. Pity something like that hasn't happened to Zodiac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tighk001 Posted August 26, 2007 Report Share Posted August 26, 2007 I don't know about the fire but I went to Thorpe Park August of that year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 God this topic is full of gone away people, and the first page member stuff is soo screwed!It's well mentioned that it was a cigarette that caused this fire, however it was apparently an electrical fault. Remember reading this on a document somewhere weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornflakes Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 Asked about this at the Royal Hollaway Thorpe Park lecture, it roughly cost £1 Million in damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.man Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) I found a video on youtube, but its got a boring video of x:/ no way out first? but afterwards its got pics an video's of the fire dammage at TP! On that video you can see the misters working on X, good find!Imagine being the person that started the fire, the shame! Edited June 5, 2011 by Mer9 Combined the two posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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