Everyone accounted for after blaze at east London flats, fire brigade says

[Nearly Sane]

Good news that everyone got out OK, harsh reminder of Grenfell and the slow reaction then, and since.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm2n8y8p75yt

[Roses]

I am so glad everyone has been accounted for, but it is absolutely shocking that no fire alarm sounded and it was known it was a fire risk! After the Grenfell Tower disaster when so many people were killed and injured one would have thought that no one was permitted to reside there until it had been made completely safe.

[Maeght]

I am so glad everyone has been accounted for, but it is absolutely shocking that no fire alarm sounded and it was known it was a fire risk! After the Grenfell Tower disaster when so many people were killed and injured one would have thought that no one was permitted to reside there until it had been made completely safe.

Where else would they live though? Not minimising the situation, and really happy everyone is safe, but I understand there are a lot of properties with unsafe cladding still on them and considered to have safety issues. Terrible situation but it isn't possible to rehouse so many people. A lot of people are stuck, not able to afford to replace cladding, not able to sell. Awful.

[Maeght]

Reports of a 'fire gate padlocked shut' as well as the alarms not going off. Serious questions to be answered.

[Nearly Sane]

The inaction on cladding by the last set of govts, it's 7 years since Grenfell, would bring a sense of shame to those involved, were they capable of feeling such a thing.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8er93k051xo

[Maeght]

The inaction on cladding by the last set of govts, it's 7 years since Grenfell, would bring a sense of shame to those involved, were they capable of feeling such a thing.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8er93k051xo

Yes, and I read that the cladding that was on the upper floors of this building was known to be a fire risk 25 years ago but this was covered up. I see the chairman of the Independent Review of Building Regulations has said that making existing buildings safer should take priority over building new ones.