Social Housing Fire Shocks UK: What Really Happened In The Grenfell Tower Tragedy? | @RealStories

[Music] London [Music] England a vibrant Financial Center where steel and glass palaces rise from the banks of the river temps which winds through the bustling capital city that 8 million people call home a massive fire right now and a West London to block we speak to our reporter live at the scene the London fire brigade right now dealing with a serious fire in a tower Grand Tower 23 story residential block plat in Kensington on the 14th of June 2017 just before 1:00 a.m. a fire broke out inside apartment 16 on the fourth floor of a 23 story high-rise Tower Block in West London known as the Great full tower within 20 minutes the whole building was Ablaze the building materials and cladding used in a controversial renovation burnt like a match 72 people died in the catastrophe we're stuck on the 23rd floor hello when I saw the fire say now bloody hir now the Friday is you know you know that's when you know I got a bit you know bit more nervous the clading system system on grenfell was such that once that once it had caught fire that building was going to go up I think like a Tinder Box but that didn't mean that the people in it had to Die the granal tower fire was the worst peacetime residential fire in London for a 100 years an extraordinary number of events led to the disaster and subsequent High death toll a public inquiry is underway and much has been revealed about the Dynamics of what went wrong that night and yet hundreds of buildings are still at risk of a similar fire wherever private interests eat away at social housing to maximize profits at the cost of lives fire brigade yeah hello hi in the fire flat 16 Greenfield par so we a fire where FL 16 Greenfield par within 6 minutes of the call from the Ethiopian born taxi driver in whose flat the fire began the First Responders were on the scene at the Grenville Tower residential Block in the London burough of Kensington and Chelsea they thought they had put out the fire but as these thermal images show burning material was dripping from the cladding panel outside the window to the surprise of the fireman on scene the fire swept upwards from Flat 16 to the roof of the tower in a mere 20 minutes trapping hundreds of people in this remodeled relic of the 1970s Antonio roncolato was in his flat on the 10th floor when he was awoken at about 1:30 a.m. by a text from his son at around 1:40 Christopher my son came back from his work after he finished work he went for a couple of drinks and then he came back by car by um by mini cup so and on the way back he got a phone call from one of his cousin telling him that Grandfield Tower is burning I'm sorry the the gr Tower was blazed and um and he could not he said what are you talking about so basically he reached the the the foot of granfield Tower and straight away he called me and he told me um father get out of there because the tower is burning and um basically I was um I was asleep I was deep asleep and I um so I answered the phone and I said what do you talking about [Applause] Christopher more firemen rushed to the scene and began attacking the fire from the outside but after initially spreading vertically on the East face to the roof it then spread horizontally when the cladding lining on the crown architectural detail burned and melted down around the top of the building allowing fire to then start spreading downward on the other three faces as well a few minutes after Christopher sent me a photo and I've got on my phone and he said you see I I sent you a photo did you see the tower is really burning so and the tower at that stage 140 145 was already um this the east side of the tower was already the the left East side of the tower was already a blazed all the way up to the last floor the apartments filled with dark toxic smoke as flames crept in through vents and cracks in the window framing later fire roared into the apartments after the heat of the blaze simply burst through windows I got ready I um I um dressed up I put together my um some important documents uh my phone laptop in a rook sack in order to say now I'm going out you know so and I put a a cup and everything so as let then I said okay let me assess you know what the situation is like uh in in in the stairway in in the hallway you know so I touched my my front door and it was very warm and as I opened um a lot of um I could see nothing it was totally peach peach black the smoke that the puff the big puff of smoke that came in was so strong that made me closed the door St away it was very hot very um strong was like if you hit by a gust that you you cannot breathe anymore on the other side of the building many residents still had no idea of the disaster unfolding when they found out many chose to follow the fire brigades protocol and stayed put as emergency dispatchers instructed them and as notices posted on each floor advised so Christopher kept on calling me and um and then he passed me on to the fire marshal and he you know and I said look I'm on the 10th floor I explained to to them where I was located and I said I'm on the 10th floor I cannot go outside it's very dangerous there is a lot of smoke um is is is is you know it's it's almost impossible so I need I need help to get out of here I said okay mate stay put stay put we know you're there somebody's coming to get you 250 firemen were deployed during the emergency told what greeted them was nothing they had ever seen more was going wrong than they could handle in one [Music] night at one stage around 230 through around 230 it was still very dark outside I realized that there is smoke coming in from The Ledges of the windows brand new windows just installed a year before a year and a half before so basically I could see Paths of smokey coming in and when I saw it I could not believe it and I said my God what is going on there should be no smoke coming in there should be no air it should be airtight this place and it wasn't so I went to the bathroom I went to the I I grabbed um um clothes at towels and and bed leaning whatever I had I went to the bathroom and I put everything in the bathtub make everything wet and when I because I wanted to put around the the the window Ledges in order to stop the smoke from coming in but when I came back the the flat was um the the living room especially was totally filled up with gray smoke over the next 6 hours The Inferno killed 72 people some of London's most vulnerable citizens victims of dozens of failures in Britain's social housing policies and of a political class that ignored dire warnings of catastrophe on the horizon their how is that possible jumped up while on the fire in Apartment 16 on the fourth floor on the Eastern side of Grenville Tower spread to the outside and within 20 minutes the Flames had reached the 23rd [Music] floor and were burning and melting the clattered architectural Crown detail installed during renovation to make it look more attractive today the blackened hollow shell of grenal tower is masked in white plastic sheeting a grim Monument to Decades of urban planning failures the grall tower stands in the northwest corner of the Kensington and Chelsea burough of London on the Lancaster West estate it was owned by the Royal burough of Kensington and Chelsea the richest in England but was managed by the privately owned Kensington and Chelsea tenant management organization or KCMO in this highly priced West London burough the average selling price of a home is nearly a million these subsidized dwellings stood on some of the most prized land in in the UK they were home to a happy multiethnic community of families and professionals right next to Grandfield Tower we would have no major big buildings in there so basically the view that you would have from there you know it would be totally free and totally you know beautiful my flat uh was Facing East and South so basically I could see the city from my flat and on a clear day like today you know you could see really see very very far away Bramley house is the closest Residential Building to Grenville Tower just across the railway line it is home to Samir badani co-chair of the north Kensington Community Association I remember vividly a former residence of Grille Tower was at work my daughter was in the playground because at the bottom of of Grille Tower there was a playground and we were all all our children went to that grand full uh playground and my daughter was with her and her daughter and my daughter fell and then I got a call from her I didn't know because my daughter was late and she told me don't worry don't worry she's like my daughter I'm looking after her it was that sense of um human warmth and these were the residents of uh grandall Tower like this we have a grandall community Comm um they are so they were so such a big part of the makeup of this neighborhood so many uh people from all over from North Africa from subsaharian uh part of the of of of the continent that continent uh from Portugal from Spain from Colombia South America uh lots of um um uh Indian people Bangladeshi and so on so basically it was really a mixed community and um yeah and we you know I was quite you know very happy living in there 27 years of my life you know so it's is a big big chunk of my life grenal tower was built in 1974 and contained 120 Flats housing between 4600 people like a small vertical Village three finger-like buildings extended from the second floor mezzanine the ground and first floor being a hallway with a shopping level the walls were built to withstand a fire for about an hour and to contain any fire internally Geraldine Denning lives in another Tower Block in South London and is the lead architect of Architects for social housing and has followed the unfolding housing crisis in London for decades if a fire takes place in one compartment the compartmentation means that that fire is not allowed to spread to another one so in in a typical Tower block like grenal Tower each flat will be a complete compartment and that would be the walls and the floors and the ceilings um so of course that relies upon the uh the the the fire um protection between compartments so there's always things which pass through walls and floors so Services um doors and windows things that break the compartment so those are obviously the key points where you have to ensure that even if the compartmentation the strategy is adequate and sufficient and perfectly and a good strategy everything all those other little details also have to support that strategy the building's original design had fireproofing systems to protect the residents including a protected Central hallway and stairwell equipped with extractor fans and emergency [Music] lighting the central circulation Central core of grenil uh has only one stair um that was uh traditional and still is uh current practice um in the UK um because the fire stair isn't deemed in in in a building which which is compartmentalized like that uh the the the stair isn't isn't used for for escape or rather not for emergency evacuation um I think that's a very important thing to consider um so when you when you have a building which is compartmentalized like this the the general rule is to stay put so the idea is that if you have a fire in your compartment the idea is to retain is to is to is to um restrain the fire within that compartment little more than 30 years after the tower was built the local Council began exploring ways of caching in on the value of this prized stretch of land between ladbrook Grove and latima Road tube [Music] stations Simon Elmer Cod directs the association and is the co-author of the first publicly available report on the grenal tower disaster in sometime in the early 2000s um the Lancaster West estate which is what grenfell tower sits on and the neighboring estate the silchester estate and some of the other area around it it was kind of an entire area plan was put up for regeneration it's a poor area of Kensington Chelsea which is one of the richest burough probably the richest burrow in uh in the UK they did this in the middle of the finan crash um and in which in 2007 after that um High house prices in London fell for the first time since you know kind of like the late 70s or something so they came up with a revised plan this is the council Kensington Chelsea Council which was to demolish the sest estate still um but to refurbish the Lancaster Wester State including grenfell Tower a few years before grenfell an area in this neighborhood was um earmarked chosen for regeneration uh but in local Authority language regeneration means knocking down buildings means uh us losing our homes doesn't mean Reviving the area if they were going to start building um new developments new properties around there Residential Properties for anything between Po in that area certainly over a million quid maybe 750,000 um people are not going to pay for those properties when they're looking across at a postwar 7s concrete Council estate Michael Jardine is a local activist and architect who lives on the silchester estate and opposed the controversial Notting barns master plan the Notting barns master plan was a regeneration of both Estates on a loose uh principle that you know they were at the end of their life or were perceived to have antisocial Behavior or that the council fundamentally didn't like them and didn't see why they had to pay to maintain them when the brand of Kensington and Chelsea could be projected into this area one of the most hot contested issues was the construction of a privately owned sixth form Academy in front of the greenfeld tower that is as part of the Lancaster Wester State there was a large car park and a series of gardens which were used by the local residents the principle of building high tower blocks in the 70s was to actually free up the land around it for recreational use and all sorts of other ideas what the council came to to a decision was to sell that land for the building of a private Academy school um the idea behind this which is used on almost every Council estate regeneration scheme is what's called cross subsidization you privatize part of the land or you use Council land to build Market sale developments on it residences and then you use the profits from that to subsidize the building of whatever Council housing affordable housing or to Furbish councelor states that you're not going to demolish we used to have um three um uh football pitches and then a massive uh car park and then on the side you would have also a road that would go uh right next to the tower okay which makes sense you know you have access to the tower in case of they said okay we're going to use the space because we need to build an academy in there we need to be the school but we're going to refurbish the tower the tower now is standing right in a kulac having access only from a small road which is called granford road with cars parked on each side and they said we are trapped in here aesthetically I think the cladding was originally specified by The Architects of the academy to make a whole piece of the academy and the and the tower in 2012 the local Council put the tower block refurbishment to Tender and eventually opted for a lowcost cladding proposal aimed at improving heat efficiency and beautifying the concrete highrise when you understand the way that a um a building a fire system works it's not just the individual materials but it's also the way they work um together um so what we had what we most likely understand was there was a piece of some kind of Timber whether it's an oriented OSB board or PL board that was installed on the surface of the the concrete onto that you'd have your insulation um and onto that was the the the aluminium uh support for the cladding and then the cladding itself and it was the it was the it was the the way in which all those different pieces of the structure work together which is what created the the The Inferno they filled up the gaps between the the concrete and this um uh uh sheet of aluminium whatever it was that was totally flammable and inside they put some insulation material yeah but also in there they put a lot of rubbish rubbish that came from the buildings instead of taking it down they would you know stuff it in there we you know it's like putting dust under the carpet nobody will see it given the the the complaints that were coming from the residents at every stage of the construction um and the refurbishment of the building the complaints of the S the standard of the installation um I mean there's nothing left of the tower now to know but in terms of the it's highly likely that the standard of installation of some of these things means that a lot of the fire collors for example may not have been installed correctly um a lot of the intumescent strips a lot of the uh the fire protection uh strategies May well have not been installed adequately correctly that's highly likely given What the residents had already said starting in 2012 grenal Tower was refurbished with a new external insulation and overcladding system new windows and window frames with extractor fans refurbishment was completed in 2016 at a cost of £ 8.6 million2 and2 million less than the original budget poor maintenance and non-compliance of some of the refurbishment materials turned a small fire into a catastrophe the cladding itself called celotex consisted of sheets of polyisocyanurate glued to a plywood backing attached to the outer concrete surface of the building this surface was protected by a raino bond rain shield made of a sandwich of 6 mm of polyethylene between two half mm thick aluminium sheets the original KCMO project prom zinc outer panels with a higher fire resistance expert Witnesses testified that cladding panels did not comply with the more rigorous standards for insulating materials on high-rise dwellings rather they only complied with less rigorous specifications for outer surface building materials even though these panels contained a highly flammable polyethylene core a according to expert reports the Hasty assembly of the cladding also left exposed polyethylene edges and removed fire stopping mechanisms especially along the columns running up the building however these were not the only factors that killed 72 people that night over and Beyond the disastrous rain cladding there were also weatherproofing rubber membranes spray foam PVC Windows silicone sealant glues and polystyrene window fill panels all of these highly combustible materials were interconnected by air filled cavities that allowed the fire to race up down and horizontally across the exterior of grenfall tower the cladding would have added a good 20 or 30 cm 20 or 25 cm to the surface of the building that's to include 150 mm of insulation so you suddenly have the space within this cavity and the insulation itself which can then pass up through the window frames essentially into the interior of the building and so that becomes a very very fragile part in in the in the building envelope the fact is that the window should have been totally um totally sealed off airtight windows and and Ledges and and and Frames whatever you want to call them and they were not and that's what caus the smoke that's what was you know it you know when you see smoke coming in and uh and and it doesn't go out and you know what do you do you know so it's the smoke that kills it's not the fire itself and I've got a picture in there of the little puffs of smoke coming in there should be far stopping measures which would go around all the openings and at various stages on each floor essentially which would prevent exactly what we saw happening so it leads us to conclude that those fire stopping measures weren't in place place by 1:30 a.m. the fire was out of control but dispatchers continued to tell residents to stay put 10 residents died trying to go down the stairs many were discouraged by the smoke and went upwards but there was no way onto the roof I could see people waving uh people calling for help children screaming um as so a woman woman at a window and just burst into flames uh it's just like a crush of fire we felt their pain and I think I don't know how to explain that but we knew they were going to die and there's nothing we could do um they were trapped it was an infernal families with children could be seen waving from their apartments or flashing the lights on and off at least four victims died after having jumped from their burning [Music] Apartments the fire brigade was forced by smoke and heat in the only Central stairwell to move its command post to the bottom of the building rescue teams were sent to save people trapped in their Apartments the L s did not comply with fire safety rules and were unavailable for firefighters to use some of the apartments had also been renumbered and some had no numbers on their doors at all in other cases the stranded victims had moved to their neighbors or further up the building to the very top where firefighters had trouble reaching them at 2:35 a.m. the fire brigade told dispatchers that stay put was no longer an option and residents should try to get out if possible it was too late 114 were still inside only 42 made it out alive the second time that I tried to get out to you know to try to see if I could go down if the smoke in the hallway would be a bit uh um a bit better a bit clearer it was even worse and what put me off as well was the second time when I tried to get out was that um uh noises was coming I could hear some noises and people screaming so it was really discouraging you know to to try to go out and to do something stupid by 3:00 a.m. the fire in the grenfall tower had spread up the vertical columns then horizontally around the crown and then back down in other directions and then like a macabra Christmas tree spread sideways into the apartments one by one these incredible infrared images from the Metropolitan Police Helicopter show how the Flames spread around the building the flam spread relentlessly through air cavities fueled by the polyethylene sandwich melting the Plastics polycyanurate panels and aluminium debris eventually setting the panels on fire an unbearable stench filled the area uh and there were gas explosions and it felt like the tower was moving sideways and we were quite terrified that it would collapse we're pretty much on our own I think we felt uh really unsafe there were um um burning debris coming to our Courtyard uh it was terrible I could um at some point I needed to go through the police cordon and the police officer told me you can go at your own Peril and I went and I saw my neighbors in shock sheer shock Daniela fetkin Su is a preacher of the nearby Notting Hill Methodist Church where much of the community assembled during the fire you could hear the most horrific screams and it got to a stage anyway where we were told we had to leave because of the debris that was coming from the the buildings don't know what they were but they could harm us and and the fumes and that sort of thing and the community the people people the shock on their faces the rescue efforts were tireless but slow and ineffective body cam footage worn by a fire chief recorded him begging for an accurate set of floor plans from the kymo as far as I'm aware that the guy from the TMO the MD from the TMO has got plans on his um phone and he was looking to bring them through to some of these so what it's worth I've got a picture I've got a picture from the B aim control of the layout of of a standard floor but also we got we know which num send on a phone is no good for me so and I hate to say this and please don't recall this in the minutes but having experienced the back end of the LA now inquiry having been in charge of other major incidents I'm telling you now that the fact you have not been able to get mere set of plans actually as a set of plans is a maor deficiency 5 530 just before the they before my last conversation with Christopher I saw the fire crawling down on the clading on the outside of my son's window so I saw and when I saw the fire say now bloody hell now the fire is you know you know that's when you know I got a bit you know bit more nervous and but um the fact is that then the firefighters from the high ladder they they they spray a lot of water and then water uh they put off the fire and they spread a lot of water into my B my and Christopher's bedroom as well through only the the windows were closed but there was a little vent at the top that was open and through that vent a lot of water a lot of water came through but I was happy to see the water more had gone wrong than anyone would have imagined if that fire hadn't started none of this would have happened um the next thing went wrong um was that as soon as the fire was able to get outside of the building um there's there's a debate as to whether or not the the construction of the windows the refurbishment of the windows the new position of the windows was outside of the the the original frame of the building the reality was it was a very hot night um and the chances were everybody's Windows would have been open at that point the new material which was placed onto the building did transmit uh uh the flame across its surface one of the key um mechanisms for that spread of flame was um what could be understood as a series of chimneys there were uh gaps which uh moved up through the building to enable the the draft of air to pull the Flames vertically up um up the building the cladding system on Grena was such that once that once it had caught fire that building was going to go up I think like a Tinder Box but that didn't mean that the people in it had to Die the residents have been complaining about the poor quality of the renovation of the interior which inv involved lots of fire safety measures the securing of the compartmentalization of it um the uh the fact that the the smoke extractors didn't work the fact that the emergency lighting in the stairwell didn't work the fact that as they reported gas Mains unboxed ran down the fire stairway which is kind of kind of the extent of the lunacy of the refurbishment of that Antonio roncolato was still alive around 5:30 6:00 um I had the last conversation with Christopher and I said Christopher listen I've been here for so so long they told me that they would come and get me they told me to stay put even though I cannot go out and um and I said I need you to you know I need to to speak to someone to see really what's happening and he he ran right next to the Tower and then he passed you know one fire one fire marshal or or or fire brigade man or something and so I said look this is this is happening I'm still here you told me to stay put and I I tried twice to go out and the the smoke is horrible so then this guy told me it was around 6:00 he told me um okay mate wait a second wait a second literally like that wait a second wait a second so then I could hear he was talking to someone else he talked to two firemen and then he said okay be prepared because somebody's coming to you now others were talking to people trapped on the inside several broadcast on Facebook Facebook live and used other social media to communicate their last desperate feelings to the world the thoughts of those who survived went to those still Trapped At Last Antonio roncolato was able to escape I got ready and then few minutes after 6:00 two firefighters came in to my flat they knocked they banked at the door I opened straight away and they s they told me how many of you I said it's only me right U we're going to do the following I'm going to in the front you are going to be in the middle behind me you grab me from my jacket at the back and my colleague is going to be in the back of you and he will it will um guide you through as well so um and I said are you ready I said yes he took my hat off and he put a wet towel that he found on the floor he put it over me I had a wet towel small wet towel on my on my my mouth so to to you know to protect my breathing basically and on the way down uh I stepped over a dead body and I couldn't move any further down so the guy behind me uh he lift my feet my foot my right foot and he freed me and then we moved on by failing to properly assess fire danger in the refurbished claded grenfall Tower London had failed its most vulnerable citizens many of whom were foreigners or of non-british descent [Music] entire families died in the grenal tower fire huddled together in their flats or fleeing down the stairwell the nation mourned 72 dead from all over the world Antonio roncolato survived I was the one like no worry I'm here you know I'm fine you know everything is okay I got out you know but um it was um extremely extremely stressful and mainly for Christopher because Christopher was outside the tower watching the Beast burning and getting bigger and bigger and bigger me inside and even though I was trying to because I had to reassure him that I was okay that this is not my day that I will make it that everything's going to be fine that we're going to be together again but he was not sure in 2009 rain clading on another Council building lacol house in southern London caught fire six people died after the lacor house fire in 2009 um the coroner took about 3 years to write this report and it made a series of recommendations um one of the key ones was that the the not the cause of the fire but the virence of the fire how a small fire managed to kill six people and spread up so quickly was that it used um aluminium composite rain cladding and this is the form that's used on the similar form to used on the Grandfield Tower fire if sprinklers had been installed the fire would not have spread to the outer flammable surface of the building but sprinkler systems are not required by law to be retrofitted onto older buildings in Britain the all party parliamentary fire safety and rescue Group which is composed of I guess the most senior fire experts in the in the in the country sent um letters urging uh four subsequent ministers two ministers and two under ministers in the department of um communities in local government to pass legislation for the retrofitting of sprinklers to residential dwellings and this urging was Sat On by subsequent ministers over a very long time the type of cladding used in the grenfall tower is banned in Germany and in the US say on high-rise buildings above 18 M building regulations in Britain require external surfaces do not spread fire but do not take into account the possibility of fire spreading via exposed flammable edges after a similar fire in Australia a senior fire safety engineer testified that one kilo of polyethylene is equivalent to 5 and2 L of petrol what was produced was a kind of cocktail um within that panel there are there were uh there's it's possible to add certain additives which might have sort of mineralized that which I think potentially would have reduced the fire um the flammability of that material um as far as I'm aware they didn't use those those those panels um um but yeah I mean the speed at which it went up the building has say yes pretty much was petrol if you'd seen the the flames and the footage filmed from all those people's mobile phone cameras then yeah that was like igniting petrol on a building yeah London is one of the richest cities in the world and land is extremely valuable the local burrowers stand to make a fortune from selling the land to developers who promise that a certain number of social homes will be retained this rarely happens about H about 20 years ago probably a little bit longer um there was what we're in in the middle of now 20 OD years into which is a national program called the estate regeneration program in London it almost always means uh regeneration always means Demolition and Redevelopment um that's because the state regeneration program in its current form is not not about refurbishing homes but getting access to the land that these Council Estates uh are built on many grenfall residents are still without permanent housing they are eager to see Justice done and the truth about what went wrong that night come out in the ongoing inquiry they have publicly defended members of the fire brigades who some see as scapegoats for a much bigger problem local MP Emma Dent code joined a March in support of the men and women who risked their lives battling the Grenville Tower fire there's been no change at the council um this could happen again tomorrow if this has happened to their neighbors they would be they would have dot with it and I genuinely think there a really horrible and unforgivable undercurrent of racism there they may not even be aware of it themselves but they do think the people in the tower lesser beings and I've seen that many many times I'm on the fire safety and rescue committee um at um in the uh in Parliament and we're constantly making recommendations we have the fire minister in ask him questions he doesn't know he doesn't know what he's doing and he's very offhand about it it's really if this could happen again tomorrow as the Flames were eating through the grenfall tower this multi-ethnic community came together in what was a makeshift emergency shelter under the overpass survivors have since posted their personal stories memories and calls for justice children put up drawings of the night people of different faiths came together to help their fellow [Music] neighbors I remember there are lots of people crying saying I can't find my cousin I can't find my daughter I can't find this and it got to a situation where we say what do they look like photographs and that sort of thing we had the noting Hill van outside and they started putting pictures of uh you know the missing people on there and that sort of like grew really you know and then it was on the railings and then it was on the walls and then it was just all around the community um because um people were just saying have you seen this person have you cuz people were obviously running to all sorts of areas and being to and some people were not actually in at the time you know so there were lots of people who were looking for for their family members the anger that still simmers under the ashes of the guttered Grenville Tower is fueling a new Civic movement of solidarity and self-governance that may one day be the Cornerstone of a new community I think what the the tragedy did it highlighted that um stigma I would call call it stigma because it's not just race of Faith it's social status somehow it's like living living in social housing is a bad thing um that we can't be uh educated people or we don't have a career and when you look at the makeup of the local area uh people are working people are you know have degrees and it's like no matter what we do in our life no matter how high we're reach in our life we still um labeled as uh low class people more than 2 years after 72 people died in the grenfall tower fire the inquiry has yet to determine officially what went wrong but resilient residents have grenal in their hearts and are not about to let the country forget any local Authority would have lost its right to make decisions for people it serves but this local Authority continued to do so while it was still under the um uh question mark As to its Fitness to um exercise their duty of care they're under criminal investigation for potential bridges of health and safety regulations why should we trust them why should we go to them uh so it created a a vacuum and that vacuum was filled by the community hence we set up the space here because either you bring government to take over or you bring Commissioners to take over all the community to take over the Lancaster estate residents plan to keep pushing for justice calling for public and private sector accountability and lobbying for policy changes that will help prevent any such tragedy from happening again only if the lessons of the grenal tower fire are learned and real changes arise from the inquiry will the deaths of their friends family and neighbors not have been in [Music] vain [Music]

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Published: Tue Apr 09 2024