17 people dead and 80 injured but these are only ground reports. They just started to actually identify and count all the bodies trapped in the upper floors. So the number of fatalities will unfortunately increase.
This should not have happened and it's an extremely important issue for anyone. The safety of the building you live in should be a priority. Fire-sprinkles, fire-alarms, not fucking flammable materials on the exterior of the building, escape routes and so on. These should all be demanded by the people living in apartment blocks. Same with the clubs that you go to friday nights. Always make sure they have all the required safety measures taken. How many accidents like these have to happen for people to give a fuck about safety measures more than their own pocket. For a bunch of dollars more you risk the lives of entire families.
Residents at the block were so concerned about fire safety after the recent refurbishment works in March that they requested an independent fire safety assessor to come in to review the safety of the building, but their request was rejected, the Labour councillor responsible for the block said.
She said tenants were concerned about the fire risk during and after recent refurbishment works and repeatedly raised their concerns with her.
Judith Blackman, Labour housing spokeswoman and who is on the board of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), which runs the council’s homes, said:
We were constantly being fobbed off. All our concerns were being ignored. Our request for an independent safety adjudicator was turned down. We were told it was unnecessary.
Blackman said she raised the concerns of the residents with colleagues on the board so frequently that the board tried to have her removed from her position. The board said there was no need to employ an independent assessor, told her that their own checks were adequate, and said it “was not necessary to fund or instruct an independent adjudicator at this time”.
Blackman said:
I was treated like I was a nuisance. I raised 19 complaints on behalf of individual residents. Every single time we were told that the board had satisfied itself that the fire safety was fine. We were told that the go inside and wait policy was absolutely right.
In a letter to KCTMO, Blackman shared the residents’ concerns with the group. “I can’t think in all my 34 years on the council of anything that has gone on for so long in such an irresponsible manner and caused such concern to residents,” she wrote.
The thing that baffles me is that there were around 600 people that night... the last 3 flats nobody survived 100%. Then you have from floor 21 to floor 14 (last floor firemen were able to reach)...
The entire family of this person was stuck on 17th floor. This pretty much means that everyone stuck above 14th floor died that night. How many were they? Where's the list of people missing? The 150+ figure definitely sounds more credible. On top of that, where are all the other survivors? Evacuated? Evacuated where? All survivors say that nobody else escaped. What a shitshow. They don't want the rest of the world to interfere. They wanna "fix" this silently. Well, this ain't the way to do it.
