Exits Yesterday

DagenhamFox

DagenhamFox

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I along with many others left the stadium after the trophy lift and the Albrighton banner to find the only way to exit the stadium was to queue then exit out through one of the turnstiles in single file.

@Filbo65 tried the emergency exit and it was bolted shut. Each seemingly has an electro magnet at the top.

Had a major disaster occurred yesterday people would have been trapped in the stadium unable to get out.

Why did they do that? Presumably to stop people coming into the stadium to join in with the celebrations.

Yet there was nobody outside.

Again we are not a big club. Liverpool and Arsenal might have had a few thousand outside the gates to try and get in. We’re not that kind of club and we never will be.

Those in charge at Leicester need to understand this and stop treating us like children.
 
With my Elf ‘n’ Safety hat on, it there are electro-magnets operating the door locks they must be open when there are people in the stadium in case of power failure.
 
DagenhamFox said:
I along with many others left the stadium after the trophy lift and the Albrighton banner to find the only way to exit the stadium was to queue then exit out through one of the turnstiles in single file.

@Filbo65 tried the emergency exit and it was bolted shut. Each seemingly has an electro magnet at the top.

Had a major disaster occurred yesterday people would have been trapped in the stadium unable to get out.

Why did they do that? Presumably to stop people coming into the stadium to join in with the celebrations.

Yet there was nobody outside.

Again we are not a big club. Liverpool and Arsenal might have had a few thousand outside the gates to try and get in. We’re not that kind of club and we never will be.

Those in charge at Leicester need to understand this and stop treating us like children.
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After that crap performance it was to keep you in.
 
In my last job I attended meetings about ground safety. Our PL win celebration was cited as an example of a particular challenge, and of good practice, with about 6,000 people outside wanting to get in.

Did you leave before all the shenanigans had finished? If so then people being able to leave safely through the turnstiles is reasonable. I’m assuming that if an evacuation was needed, the magnetic bolts can all be released from a central point or a couple of them.

They probably planned on the assumption there would be people outside wanting to get in. As with many such plans, they just lacked a review process midway, viz, ‘someone have a look outside and see if anyone’s there’
 
Yes I did. Before the lap of honour really started. There were loads leaving. Your point about someone reviewing it is a valid point. Like I said there was nobody outside apart from those who had left.
 
A part of the approval of a certificate for the stadium would have to demonstrate a crowd evacuation system, all within a certain period of time. This is calculated by the width and numbers of exits being fully available in the event of an emergency. A part crowd evacuation exercise would have to be undertaken to demonstrated that the system works. On Saturday, who knows?
 
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AlgarFox said:
A part of the approval of a certificate for the stadium would have to demonstrate a crowd evacuation system, all within a certain period of time. This is calculated by the width and numbers of exits being fully available in the event of an emergency. A part crowd evacuation exercise would have to be undertaken to demonstrated that the system works. On Saturday, who knows?
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Who knows indeed.
A plan demonstrated to get a safety cert a year ago can bear fuck-all resemblance to what's actually done a year later, when some cunt in charge is distracted by a special day on which he can demonstrate his pedantry and well-honed skills in removing any semblance of spontaneity or whiff of celebration by the over-zealous locking-down of everything and everyone.
 
Daggers is right. It was a truly appalling decision by someone to lock emergency exit gates. Locking even one would've been madness.
Yes, they might have mag-locks on them. And yes, those locks might be able to be over-ridden. But they have push-bars on for a good and simple reason – to save precious seconds, when it really matters.
I'll be telling Whelan about this on Tuesday, but I expect the best I could hope for is her appointing the Safety Officer to undertake a review of how he allowed it to be done.
Unacceptable. Sadly, on reflection, I'm not in the least surprised.
 
There were plenty of police everywhere outside to keep those in charge fully informed of what was happening outside.
Or if they'd increased the spacing between the ludicrous number of bodies surrounding the pitch from approx 18" to 22", they would have had plenty of stewards free to deploy at the gates for real-time awareness of what was actually happening.
But no; as you said above, they fucked up whatever plan they should have had.
Locking or blocking emergency exits at any time when a venue or building is occupied is piss-poor practice; any fireman will tell you that.
 
The most worrying thing is the complete lack of understanding of context by those in charge of security. Clearly their reference point was 2016 with thousands outside the ground. But anyone with the remotest awareness would have known that the chances of similar crowds gathering for the Blackburn game were vanishingly small. About 5000-1 maybe.

One was the climax of the greatest......no, you don't need me to explain. It's just too fkin obvious. And there have been way too many examples of this over the years (especially in the Pierpoint era).

They know absolutely f-all about the game (and it wouldn't even surprise me if that was a condition for getting the job in the first place).
 
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