| ID | #1476710792 |
| Added | Mon, 17/10/2016 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | |
| Phenomena | |
| Status | Investigation
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Initial data
Passers-by helped save a closed shop against fire, discovered on the couch and had a weird square shape.
Ragini Patel, who lives in Fulham Road, was on his way to Sainsbury's just before 9am on Sunday, December 14, when a young son of her neighbor told her he saw a burning couch in the Lettings Company shop in Fulham Road, on which there are two more floors of apartments.
Quite a long time living in the area Ragini Patel called the fire brigade who had to break the door to the store to put out the fire that started in the form of a square and gradually spread to the entire sofa.
The cause of the fire is not clear so far. Among the possible sources of fire referred to as a laser pointer, magnifying glass or the sun shining through the window of the store. Luckily, the sofa was made of refractory material, which slowed the spread of fire.
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Original news
A passer-by helped save a closed shop and flats from going up in flames after spotting a sofa which had mysteriously caught fire in a square shape.
Ragini Patel, of Fulham Road, was on her way to Sainsbury’s just before 9am on Sunday (December 14) when the young son of a neighbour told her he could see a sofa on fire in the Lettings Company shop in Fulham Road which has two floors of flats above.
The long-time Fulham resident instantly called the fire brigade who had to smash down the estate agent’s door to put the fire out which started in a square shape and slowly spread out to burn the entire sofa.
She said: “I was just going to Sainsbury’s in the morning when my neighbour’s son told me there was a fire in the shop. I looked in and a square-shaped fire was burning into the sofa. It was very odd. I called the fire brigade straight away then started filming because it was very bizarre, I couldn’t figure out how it had started.”
Colleagues from the Lettings Company are very grateful to Mrs Patel and her neighbour’s son but are still mystified as to how the fire started in their shop.
Clyde Johnson, from the shop, said: “We’re very thankful to Mrs Patel for phoning the fire brigade but we still have no idea how it started. It’s a fire resistant sofa luckily so it minimised the fire but we don’t know if it was caused by a laser pointer or maybe a magnifying glass or just the sun shining in oddly. The police can’t figure it out either.”
A London Fire Brigade spokesman added: “The member of the public who called us did the right thing. We would advise anybody to do the same thing - call straight away.”
Hypotheses
Lens and reflector
Lens is the detail of transparent homogeneous material bounded by two polished refractive surfaces of rotation.
Reflector — in a broad sense the reflector. Lighting technology reflectors are used to change the directivity of the light source, creating a more directed light beam, for example, in projectors and lamps.
Investigation
According to the owner of the shop, the fire source can be a laser pointer, magnifying glass or the sun shining through the window of the store.
For study version: December 14, 2014 in London, according to statistics pogoda.mail.ruit was +2 - +8, cloudy and rain.
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