London Tower Block Fire

Holy *. Just woke up to this news. Some horrible accounts from eyewitnesses about people stuck inside and jumping Fire started around 12:30am, around 500 people lived in there.

 

Yeah like I said the numbers are going to be awful Hubby is a retired firefighter and he instantly thought that it must be terror related but the building is apparently one of the older blocks. I don't really understand it all but in the more modern high rises there's preventative measures in every floor which are controlled from the bottom. To make matters worse in this type of fire is that the water platforms can only go as high as the 10th floor. * bless the people in the upper floors they would have no chance Really makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

 

Just seeing this on the TV,looks terrible.Middle of the night so everyone would have been in their beds.Think the death toll will be quite high sadly,very tragic.

 

Supposedly caused by a faulty fridge.

 

Just seen this on tv and suddenly realised that the tower block behind it is were my sister used to live.
Been to that area many times when i was younger.

 

Possible just last week one at my work started pouring smoke out of it. If it wasn't during the day the same thing could have happened. Wonder if it was an old fridge or a new one and what will be done if it's new.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ondon-apartment-block-white-city-latimer-road

If you’re just waking up, here’s what you need to know about the devastating blaze at Grenfell Tower.

• The apartment block on the Lancaster West estate in north Kensington continues to burn after the fire brigade was alerted shortly before 1am Wednesday.
  
  
• Forty fire engines and over 200 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze through the early morning, “working extremely hard in very difficult conditions” to tackle the “large and very serious incident”.
  
  
• Though many witnesses said they saw people trapped inside their homes, emergency services gave no further details beyond saying that 30 patients were taken to five hospitals.
  
  
• The fire brigade is expected to give an update soon; areas of the building are still on fire, prompting concerns it may collapse.
  
  
• About 30 flats in the surrounding area have been evacuated and emergency rest centres have been set up for those told to leave their homes.
  
  
• Police have set up an emergency number for people concerned for friends and families on 0800 0961 233.
  
  
• A resident group repeatedly warned of a fire risk at the tower, claiming that a major fire had been narrowly averted after a power surge in 2013.
  
  
• The building recently underwent significant, multimillion-pound renovations that concluded in early 2016.
  
  
• The borough of Kensington and Chelsea said the cause of the fire will be investigated, but for now the focus is on supporting emergency services in their rescue and relief operation.

 

OOOFT!

A resident group repeatedly warned of a fire risk at Grenfell Tower and claimed a major fire was narrowly averted after a power surge in 2013.

The Grenfell Action Group says its concerns were dismissed by Kensington and Chelsea council, which owns the block, and and the local tenant management organisation [KCTMO], which runs the borough’s homes.

In a blogpost last November, it wrote:

It is our conviction that a serious fire in a tower block or similar high density residential property is the most likely reason that those who wield power at the KCTMO will be found out and brought to justice! The Grenfell Action Group believe that the KCTMO narrowly averted a major fire disaster at Grenfell Tower in 2013 when residents experienced a period of terrifying power surges that were subsequently found to have been caused by faulty wiring. We believe that our attempts to highlight the seriousness of this event were covered up by the KCTMO with the help of the RBKC scrutiny Committee who refused to investigate the legitimate concerns of tenants and leaseholders.

We believe that these investigations will become part of damning evidence of the poor safety record of the KCTMO should a fire affect any other of their properties and cause the loss of life that we are predicting ...

In the last twenty years and despite the terrifying power surge incident in 2013 and recent fire at Adair Tower, the residents of Grenfell Tower have received no proper fire safety instructions from the KCTMO. Residents were informed by a temporary notice stuck in the lift and one announcement in a recent regeneration newsletter that they should remain in their flats in the event of fire. There are not and never have been any instructions posted in the Grenfell Tower noticeboard or on individual floors as to how residents should act in the event of a fire. Anyone who witnessed the recent tower block fire at Shepherds Court, in nearby Shepherd’s Bush, will know that the advice to remain in our properties would have led to certain fatalities and we are calling on our landlord to re-consider the advice that they have so badly circulated.

The Grenfell Action Group predict that it won’t be long before the words of this blog come back to haunt the KCTMO management and we will do everything in our power to ensure that those in authority know how long and how appallingly our landlord has ignored their responsibility to ensure the health and safety of their tenants and leaseholders. They can’t say that they haven’t been warned!

 

The Council, KCTMO and RBKC will be hammered for this.
Tories must be glad they lost their seat there in the election otherwise they would face a major pr disaster.

 

They are saying the building could collapse yet the camera crews are filming right below it, guy 2 mins ago was catching bits of burning materials falling, not looking good at all for those above certain levels.


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No fire alarm I saw someone say

 

Some of the eye witness testimony is extremely harrowing. It's awful, just awful.

Some idiot in work was like, "aww, you woudnae want to wake up to that, haha" felt like slapping the fool. Fatalities will be numerous I fear.

 

Awful news

 

Someone interviewed said there were 6 apartments on each floor, with 27 storeys in total. If they're all two-bedroom that's something like 324 rooms all up. You'd guess there'd be multiple people in each bedroom as I think it's council housing, apparently a lot of families etc living there.

Not much chance for people in the top two thirds, they mentioned ladders/hoses etc only being able to go up to about the 10th storey.

 

This is absolutely horrendous. The worst news.

 

Some people are just not right in the head. It's frightening that someone has such an absence of social conscience or empathy.

 

* sake, how did it get so bad?

 

* sake just seen this.

Wonder if it was some *'s hydroponic set up that went up in blaze, you know they're always rife in tower blocks/high risers.

 

Said it only took 15 mins to spread the whole side of the building. That's staggering. I can't wrap my head around that with fire doors and other resistant materials etc, some people will have had zero chance

 

That old man this morning hope he gets out ok