Huge Fire In Block Of Flats

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SkrrSkrr

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261 posts

88 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Grenfell Tower in west London is on fire. Hope everyone gets out without serious injury


Video: https://twitter.com/sarmadbdk/status/8747875636425...

40 min periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1RDGlZqozBDxL














Edited by SkrrSkrr on Wednesday 14th June 03:18

200bhp

5,663 posts

218 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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SkrrSkrr said:







Edited by SkrrSkrr on Wednesday 14th June 03:18
The picture makes it look a lot worse than the others :O

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

253 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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st that looks bad

200bhp

5,663 posts

218 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Surely the block has to be on the brink of collapse similar to WTC 9/11 ??

Some tweets reporting people jumping, climbing down blankets etc. frown

200bhp

5,663 posts

218 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Interesting views on the LandLords and building safety from the tower residents group!

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/...

"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 floor as to how residents should act in event of a fire"

FlyingMeeces

9,932 posts

210 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Utterly indescribably awful.

Hoping against all logic that nobody died.

Loyly

17,990 posts

158 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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FlyingMeeces said:
Utterly indescribably awful.

Hoping against all logic that nobody died.
I doubt that'll be the case. BBC are reporting flashing lights, possibly torches, apparrently signalling from the upper floors earlier when it was dark, and other unconfirmed reports stating people ringing loved ones from inside saying they didn't think they'd get out.

limpsfield

5,871 posts

252 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Running coverage on BBC 5live - just horrible. Eye witness saying he doesn't think that anyone above the fourth floor had much chance of getting out.

FlyingMeeces

9,932 posts

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Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Loyly said:
FlyingMeeces said:
Utterly indescribably awful.

Hoping against all logic that nobody died.
I doubt that'll be the case. BBC are reporting flashing lights, possibly torches, apparrently signalling from the upper floors earlier when it was dark, and other unconfirmed reports stating people ringing loved ones from inside saying they didn't think they'd get out.
Yeah, saw the same stuff. Struggling to imagine that being survivable, but hoping all the same.

Stuff of literal nightmares.

s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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LBC have had people on with relatives getting out from the high teen floor numbers, there's no way that there aren't people in there from the reports of how fast it spread.

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Unfortunately no chance there won't be fatalities.

limpsfield

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252 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Eye witness now saying there are residents flashing torches on the higher levels awaiting rescue. Unimaginable.

Oceanic

731 posts

100 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Looking at the live video, the fire brigade seem to be tackling it from some distance!

OzzyR1

5,694 posts

231 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Christ, being stuck in there would truly be the stuff of nightmares.

e21Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Hard to imagine how fire could spread throughout the building like that but reports are it's due of the outer cladding to the building.

Edited by e21Mark on Wednesday 14th June 06:25

limpsfield

5,871 posts

252 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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30 people taken to hospital according to the London Ambulance Service

drdino

1,142 posts

141 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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e21Mark said:
Hard to imagine how fire could spread to such an extent throughout the building like that but reports are it's because of the cladding to the outer building.
Reminds me of this one:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/fire-breaks-...

Edited by drdino on Wednesday 14th June 06:32

e21Mark

16,205 posts

172 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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I note the BBC news report dropped in a ''unconfirmed report of someone hearing explosions''. Well if it's unconfirmed maybe you don't report it unless it is?

tescorank

1,985 posts

230 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Why would you put inflammable cladding on a building in the first place?

limpsfield

5,871 posts

252 months

Wednesday 14th June 2017
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e21Mark said:
I note the BBC news report dropped in a ''unconfirmed report of someone hearing explosions''. Well if it's unconfirmed maybe you don't report it unless it is?
I think it's fair enough - I have heard similar on LBC today. To be expected - gas etc - I doubt people would jump to the conclusion that it is e.g. bombs?
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