'We're looking down the barrel of another possible disaster.' Ben Selby of the Fire Brigades Union says he believes the Bibby Stockholm barge is a 'death trap' and an 'accident waiting to happen'. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
then due to move on to the vessel on Tuesday this week
The 222-bedroom Bibby Stockholm will eventually house up to 500 male asylum seekers who are currently staying in hotels, as the government seeks to cut its accommodation costs while their claims are processed.The barge will have 24-hour security and accommodate single men only, who will sleep in bunk beds with between two and six people per en-suite room.
The FBU is planning to write to the Home Office about overcrowding and access to fire exits on the vessel. He said:"Our main concerns are focused around those large numbers trying to pass through narrow doorways, trying to pass through narrow corridors, and I leave this as an open question - if firefighters were needed to make entry on to that, through those narrow corridors, when people were seeking to escape from it in case of a fire, how would they ever reach the seat of that fire and be able to make the necessary...
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