Disaster Grenfell Tower fire & fallout

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ll-tower-block-white-city-latimer-road-london

A fire has broken out in a tower block in west London with reports that people are trapped in their homes.

The fire in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road in White City started in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The fire brigade said on Twitter they were responding to a fire on the Lancaster West Estate. Two hundred fire fighters are at the scene along with forty engines that were called at just after 1.15am.

Photographs and video from the scene showed huge flames engulfing most of the block, with lights on in many windows. The tower contains 120 homes.

Witnesses described hearing shouts for help coming from people inside the tower and walls of the building creaking.

Fabio Bebber tweeted from the scene that the fire had taken over most of the block.

The Metropolitan Police said two people were being treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and cordons were in place. Residents in neighbouring streets were being evacuated.

George Clarke, the presenter of Amazing Spaces, lives nearby. He told Radio 5 Live: “I was in bed and heard ‘beep, beep, beep’ and thought, ‘I’ll get up and run downstairs as quickly as I could’.

“I thought it might be a car alarm outside and saw the glow through the windows.

“I’m getting covered in ash, that’s how bad it is. I’m 100 metres away and I’m absolutely covered in ash.

“It’s so heartbreaking, I’ve seen someone flashing their torches at the top level and they obviously can’t get out.

“The guys are doing an incredible job to try and get people out that building, but it’s truly awful.”

The tower block was built in the 1970s as part of the Lancaster West Estate project.
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For a change I'm guessing this isn't a kebab attack. Probably just an accident/gross workplace incompetency. Probably...
 
please tell me while someone was escaping for their life a friendly london man told the fool not to be pyrophobic
 
entropyseekswork said:
please, please, please be the equivalent of section 8 housing.
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"The Guardian newspaper reports more than 200 people live in the burning Grenfell Tower, which is part of a large housing estate."

It's apparently got a boxing gym somewhere in it, so they can curb the locals and their punch ons and try and put their angry fists to good use as boxing "talent". No doubt it's also a major source for a lot of Jeremy Kyle's guests too.
 
Shit. they are fucked.


If you were at home when the fire started, you are basically dead. If there are more than 200 people who live in that tower, we could end up with 150+ dead since it happened at night and the vast majority of people were most likely at home sleeping
 
A nearby resident, named as Sofia, also told Radio 5:

“I kept hearing what I thought were loud banging sounds … I looked out of the window and said Grenfell Tower was burning down.”

She said, as other eyewitnesses have done, said the fire began one side but quickly spread across the whole building.

“I have not seen a survivor, someone pulled out of the building and being treated by an ambulance. I think it confirms my worst fear that people are dying in this building.”

She said the noises began around 1.15am, and the fire had spread very rapidly.

“I heard loads of young girls crying out for help … I can’t see any ladders extending into the building … I can hear people screaming for help and they are dying.”

But another eyewitness said he had seen groups of people, “at least three families”, leaving the building at different exits, but added that he had heard that staircases inside were now on fire.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
A nearby resident, named as Sofia, also told Radio 5:

“I kept hearing what I thought were loud banging sounds … I looked out of the window and said Grenfell Tower was burning down.”

She said, as other eyewitnesses have done, said the fire began one side but quickly spread across the whole building.

“I have not seen a survivor, someone pulled out of the building and being treated by an ambulance. I think it confirms my worst fear that people are dying in this building.”

She said the noises began around 1.15am, and the fire had spread very rapidly.

“I heard loads of young girls crying out for help … I can’t see any ladders extending into the building … I can hear people screaming for help and they are dying.”

But another eyewitness said he had seen groups of people, “at least three families”, leaving the building at different exits, but added that he had heard that staircases inside were now on fire.
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At that point you just have to light your cigarettes off it and accept your fate.
 
So from what I've gathered so far from comments and stream watching, early witnesses said the fire started around the upper middle floors, CNN was saying the structure was in the process of a major refurbishment, which might explain why sprinklers didn't stop it (might have been turned off and being replaced). and what @CWCchange just linked, the tower was cited as a big fire risk.

Right now it seems like Murphy's Law found an ideal target.
 
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