What is it with the media that it has to mention that there was wood in a building that caught fire and/or that it was 鈥渢imber framed鈥� (鈥淔ire in Bath鈥�, 26 September, page 9)?

What sort of timber frame? Trussed rafters? Or is just 鈥渢imber frame鈥� more of an attention-grabber?

Petrol burns too, and a damn sight more readily than wood, but do we ever read, 鈥淪even-car pile-up on the M3 earlier today 鈥� vehicles believed to contain petrol鈥�?

There are precious few buildings anywhere that contain no wood whatsoever, be it in the fabric or the contents. With petrol in motor cars or wood in buildings, fire is never caused by the innate combustibility of the substance.

John Park, Canada Wood UK

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