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The second fire at Covent Garden Market occurred in a five storey warehouse at 1500 hours on 11 May 1954 and continued until approximately 2230 hours on the same day.
The lessons learnt from this fire were:-
- No recording and supervising of men entering and leaving the incident in BA. In fact one fireman was only unaccounted for when a roll call was taken at the fire stations which had responded to the incident.
- No means of summoning assistance in an emergency - Crews took nearly an hour to locate a trapped colleague after a collapse.
- No evacuation signals to warn men to withdraw if signs of collapse became evident.
It is obvious that the above lessons were some of the same as experienced at the 1949 basement fire.
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