Grenfell Tower block disaster

[Blue Hefner]

The plastic cladding fella... went up like a fuse.

I have no idea about fire regs and I appreciate that it is early days but, is plastic cladding common? I fucking hope not if that is the potential outcome from, presumably, a fire that started small

 

[nmc]

As usual there will be a debate about how this could happen - a 27 floor building going up like a tinder box - clearly thousands are living in death traps. Buildings of this size should not allow fire to transfer fire from floor to floor in this way. Pray to god people are okay but I fear the worst.

 

[nmc]

I have no idea about fire regs and I appreciate that it is early days but, is plastic cladding common? I fucking hope not if that is the potential outcome from, presumably, a fire that started small

I hope it's not plastic - plastic is oil based and will burn. Too early to speculate but the ferocity of the fire looks odd in a concrete building.

 

[sir baconface]

Horrible. There will be lots of human stories to follow, some of bravery, some of tragedy.

 

[Phil1]

Those pictures have knocked me sick. Awful tragedy and my heart goes out to every single person caught up in it. Honest to god this kind of thing would be my worse nightmare. :-(

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Hoping the death toll isn't as bad as I fear, around 500 thought to live in the building.

 

[pfazz]

There is action group of residents who kept telling them ,but profit before people .https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playing-with-fire/

wow that is eerie how that has come to pass. Someone is going down for a long time for that, and rightly so.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The plastic cladding fella... went up like a fuse.

Lesson not learned from that fire in the Isle of Man where they had plastic

As usual there will be a debate about how this could happen - a 27 floor building going up like a tinder box - clearly thousands are living in death traps. Buildings of this size should not allow fire to transfer fire from floor to floor in this way. Pray to god people are okay but I fear the worst.

There will be dozens who know the answer after the fire. Pity they didn't voice those answers before!

Absolutely horrendous.

 

[Super David Silva 21]

Guy who lives in flats on BBC now, says he was told it started on the fourth floor after a fridge exploded

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Awful tragedy.

I used to live on the 10th floor of a tower block in Ashton and this was always a huge fear. I was resigned to not getting out if a fire started on a lower floor.

I can't tell you how grateful I am to be out of there and how much sorrow I feel for these people

 

[Hoghead]

There is action group of residents who kept telling them ,but profit before people .https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playing-with-fire/

Link to the board...
http://www.kctmo.org.uk/sub/about-us/20/the-board
Made up of residents, councillors and independants.

 

[bluemoon32]

How in the hell did the refurb pass building regs ?
Also, what's more shocking is they spent between 10 and 12 million (depending on which report you believe) pounds on the refurb and didn't put in a centralised fire alarm. How the fuck was that signed off by LFB?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Horrible. There will be lots of human stories to follow, some of bravery, some of tragedy.

And some of incompetence, I expect.

 

[Blue Maverick]

That is what I think. From the looks of it is a concrete frame building so its hard to understand how it could spread in such a way.

If it goes up the cladding in the outside it will break through the windows into each flat

 

[Vic]

Press conference now. First fire crews there in 6 minutes. When did the second get there may be the key question.

 

[sir baconface]

And some of incompetence, I expect.

Unfortunately, yes. And lack of accountability too, no doubt.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Press conference now. First fire crews there in 6 minutes. When did the second get there may be the key question.

Ask Boris fucking Johnson that **** shut 10 stations in London

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Unfortunately, yes.

It's difficult to conceive of anything else. A fire should not spread so quickly in such a building in this day and age.

 

[Magicpole]

I think we all thought these buildings are designed to contain fire within every unit. This obviously hasn't happened and the reason for that needs to be explained.

People all over the country living in Tower blocks will rightly be asking how safe is their block.

The council and those who built it have a lot of hard questions to answer.

You see things like this happening in third world countries were building control is laxed or non existent, but not here surely?

More reports from survivors saying no alarm. That's just unacceptable.

 

[west didsblue]

How in the hell did the refurb pass building regs ?
Also, what's more shocking is they spent between 10 and 12 million (depending on which report you believe) pounds on the refurb and didn't put in a centralised fire alarm. How the fuck was that signed off by LFB?

Presumably the cladding must have met fire regs. If it did, the regulations will be changing very soon.
Someone on the radio said that the fire brigade did a recent inspection and passed it off as safe!