Are there thousands of people on the streets in central Croydon preventing the fire brigade getting access? I don't see that. Presumably its just so stretched that there is no way that the emergency services can get to fires in time and things have to be prioritised. Which in itself is extremely worrying as what happens if theres an 'ordinary' emergency ie a house fire and all resources are attending these, or you can't get an ambulance as they can't do down certain streets. There will also be tragedies occurring here.

I still can't believe all of this is happening- its like a bad dream.