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Poor Weston Pier - TheOriginalMrP - 04 Aug 2008 Hi all Just came back from a weeks holiday to Weston. I'm sure many of you heared on the news that the Pier had a fire last Monday. Just to assure you, I had nothing to do with this, even though I have tendancies to start fires in my past! This is what it looked like last year...... And this is this year.... I don't think it's terminal though, by thursday, they had re-opened the pier up as far as the fire damage. I was amazed on how the heat had literally turned the RSJ's limp! - Guinney1971 - 04 Aug 2008 so sad watching that on the news last week - hope they do rebuild it, I remember going there on year (many moons ago!! lol) - steve.s - 04 Aug 2008 sorry to be a boring structural engineer, but this is why modern steel buildings have fire protection to steelwork, like plasterboard or intumescent paint. at temperatures in even a domestic fire, steel will loose its strength rapidly. you would think by now that many public buildings would have to fit sprinklers. modern sprinklers only activate local to a fire to minimise water damage.