"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insert my surname here wrote in message
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On 19/08/2014 19:32, harryagain wrote:
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The fire brigades are well aware of how to deal with PV panels these
days...

Yep - unless life is at risk, stay outside.

And they can't know if life is at risk without going inside most of the
time.

The risk of live cables or the panels falling though the roof is too great
to risk the lives of firemen, just to save property.

But they can still hose the place down from outside.

In Germany, the insurance companies won't even insure firemen who enter a
burning building with solar panels on the roof

More fool the krauts.

and they are experts at assessing risks.

Pigs arse they are. There is no more risk
than there is with a conventional tiled roof.