London Tower Block Inferno

[filthy1980]

The fire apparently started in a lower floor flat.

Listening to a firefighter on the radio.

As the firefighters were going up the narrow staircase in breathing apparatus they had people coming down without it. He doesn't know how they could breathe.

They had to run in the building under the police riot shields to escape the debris raining down on them.

A firefighter got hit by someone who jumped from the building. The firefighter is fine.

He has never seen a whole 24 storey building on fire before.

lots of eye witnesses all saying the fire was on the outside of the building and flew up the sides

apparently had a £10m face lift last year, all the money spent on the cladding to make it look "pretty"

some serious questions need to be asked of these "urban regeneration schemes"

can imagine the fallout from this is going to be huge, some local council and their contractors will be rightly put through the ringer

[SueEllen]

can imagine the fallout from this is going to be huge, some local council and their contractors will be rightly put through the ringer

The organisation who managers the estates in Kensington and Chelsea are an arms length one. So the council has a fall guy.

[filthy1980]

The organisation who managers the estates in Kensington and Chelsea are an arms length one. So the council has a fall guy.

having worked at a local council for a few years, this is very much deliberate

they tend to be arms length when things go wrong, but part and parcel when the council wants to take credit for something

[vetran]

definitely on the outside



there are some other pictures & videos - don't bother!

[sal]

can imagine the fallout from this is going to be huge, some local council and their contractors will should be rightly put through the ringer

ftfy

bidi

[darmstadt]

I believe the company who put up the cladding went bankrupt shortly after...

[eek]

I believe the company who put up the cladding went bankrupt shortly after...

That may have protected the directors money, it won't protect them from Jail. For that is where I expect a few people are going...

[shaunbhoy]

24 storeys and 5 flats per storey.

120 flats with probably at least 2 people in each one.

If the death toll stays anywhere near to the current 6 then it will have been nothing short of miraculous.

Dreadful way to perish for the victims, although hopefully they will have been rendered unconscious due to smoke inhalation before the flames got to them.

Terribly sad business.

[vetran]

24 storeys and 5 flats per storey.

120 flats with probably at least 2 people in each one.

If the death toll stays anywhere near to the current 6 then it will have been nothing short of miraculous.

Dreadful way to perish for the victims, although hopefully they will have been rendered unconscious due to smoke inhalation before the flames got to them.

Terribly sad business.

the wail suggests no one escaped from top 3 floors. Also seems to be used for housing council tenants so they are likely to have a number of children (you tend not to get in nowadays unless you have children). As you say if it stays at six then its miraculous. They suggest ~ 50 are missing.

London fire: 6 confirmed dead after Grenfell Tower blaze | Daily Mail Online

Whoever manufactured and whoever arranged to fit those panels needs to be in jail!

[vetran]

yep Miraculous

Petrified people were seen throwing themselves and their children out of windows - a baby tossed from the '9th or tenth floor' was caught and survived;

wow