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with the "Stay put" policy there aren't audible alarms to trigger an evacuation.No alarms? The poor people. Just horrendous.
with the "Stay put" policy there aren't audible alarms to trigger an evacuation.No alarms? The poor people. Just horrendous.
Like many other urbs I've lived in tower blocks. Could easily have been me in there. there will be a horrific death toll
Probable death toll in the hundreds.
with the "Stay put" policy there aren't audible alarms to trigger an evacuation.
When I lived in a tower block in Hackney I saw no fire alarms and only discovered a fire outside my door because of the smell of smoke. Think the absence of fire alarms quite widespread.
ACM is apparently aluminium composite material... Purely for reference purposes, making no judgment on whether the cladding was responsible, or could have been responsible.
All of Harley's rainscreen products come as a system, complete with carrier rails and brackets, and all necessary wall insulation and fire barriers
Too early to say but eye witness reports seem to say that the new cladding contributed to the fast spread of the fire. How the fuck can the cladding not be safe?
When I lived in a tower block in Hackney I saw no fire alarms and only discovered a fire outside my door because of the smell of smoke. Think the absence of fire alarms quite widespread.
If it is aluminium based, as any metal ending in ium, it burns ferociously once ignited. I have seen horrendous fires where aluminium was involved.
How this material got past building controls needs investigation.
LBC just reported that the residents association of the building warned the landlords/owners of fire safety in a blog post.
KCTMO – Playing with fire! - Article referred to, not sure if I can post here so do remove if applicable.
Worried?! If their shoddy building has killed people they should be doing all they can to make things betterAdded to the other issues about no integrated alarm system, and an inappropriate fire procedure there is going to be a criminal case from this. Some people are going to be very very worried today.
Looking at the pictures and listening to the reports this morning made me throw up for exactly that reason.Can't get my head around how terrifying this must have been for those poor poor people
There's only 8 flats in my building - which is over 100 years old - yet we've got internal fire alarms, a communal fire alarm system & automatic sprinklers in half the flats. For a 24 storey building with over 100 flats, this seems truly shocking...No central alarm system, no sprinkler system and only one staircase. How the fuck is that legal?
with the "Stay put" policy there aren't audible alarms to trigger an evacuation.
At the risk of bringing politics into it, would that have anything to do with cuts to the fire services from a few years back?Underneath the BBC article on this there is a link to one from 2013 after another tower block fire, which states that LFB were not visiting fire blocks on a regular basis for familiarisation ie to learn about building layout, fire escape locations etc.
At a guess, avoid mass panic/stampedes?What's the point of the "Stay Put" policy?
Because fires should be able to be tackled from inside the block of flats and the doors should give an hour or so of protection.What's the point of the "Stay Put" policy?
Kinda sounds like the sort of policy you have in place when you've got nothing better to suggest...What's the point of the "Stay Put" policy?
Witnesses on the news talking about people jumping from halfway up the building...Oh, that news reporter. Had to really compose herself when reporting some people saw children being thrown from windows in a desperate attempt to save them
This is so horrible. Poor, poor people