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Grenfell Tower Fire: Fears Of People Trapped Inside 24-Story Building
Topic Started: Jun 13 2017, 10:51 PM (110 Views)
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.....monitoring reports of an apratment fire at the 24-story Grenfill Tower apartment complxe in the Latimer Road district of London....
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(The Guardian) A block of flats in London is on fire, with people reportedly trapped inside.

Forty fire engines and 200 firefighters are battling the blaze at the Lancaster West Estate tower block, a 24-storey building in Latimer Road in White City.

The Metropolitan police were called to the apartment building at 1.15am on Wednesday, and officers and the London Ambulance Service have joined London Fire Brigade at the scene. An evacuation process is underway.

Police said two people were being treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, but reports from the scene suggest people are trapped inside their homes. More than 200 people live in the block.
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--Firefighters working hard to bring fire under control on Lancaster West Estate #NorthKensington (London Fire Brigade, 13 June 2017)
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--We can hear fire brigade replying to people who are still trapped #grenfelltower (Fabio Bebber, 13 June 2017)
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--Grenfell Tower in White City is completely ablaze. Chunks of flaming debris can be seen falling from the upper floors (Alice Ross, The Guardian - 13 June 2017)
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--Major incident declared at Grenfell Tower in Kensington. 40 fire engines & 200 firefighters at the scene - follow @LondonFire for updates. (Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London - 13 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) Rachael Venables, an LBC reporter, has tweeted video of emergency services on the roads surrounding the Grenfell Tower.

A reporter for Sky News UK has said the police cordon extends several blocks back from the blaze and is manned by “hundreds” of officers. “There isn’t any panic, people are just looking at what is happening with a degree of disbelief.

“The tower bloke is aflame, the smoke is rising, there are people who have escaped with their lives who are looking back on the tower and knowing that everyone they have has been destroyed. It’s a terrible, terrible situation.”
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(The Guardian) There has been no confirmation yet if anyone has been killed in the Grenfell Tower fire, although police have said “a number of people” are being treated for various injuries.

To date, London’s worst tower block fire took place in Camberwell, south London, in July 2009. Six people – three women and three children – were killed when fire swept through the 14-storey Lakanal House. At least 20 people were injured.

Earlier this year, Southwark council was fined £570,000 after admitting it had breached a number of fire safety regulations.

All local authorities were ordered to check the safety of high-rise blocks in the wake of the Lakanal House tragedy, after firefighters expressed shock at the speed at which the flames engulfed the building.
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(The Guardian) Summary - 11:33pm
--A huge fire has engulfed a tower block in West London.
--The fire broke out shortly before 1am on Wednesday at Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road near Notting Hill.
--The tower is at least 24 storeys high and contains 120 apartments.
--200 firefighters have been tackling the blaze with 40 engines.
--A number of people have been treated for a range of injuries according to the fire brigade
--There have been multiple reports of people trapped in the blaze. These have not been confirmed by police or the fire brigade.
--Streets around the tower have been sealed off and residents in ther houses evacuated.
--London Fire Brigade say there is no known cause at the moment for the blaze.
--The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has declared the fire a “major incident”.
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--Neighbours say they've recently been able to see and hear people screaming for help from Grenfell Tower. I can see a man in a window (Alice Ross, The Guardian - 13 June 2017)
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--Police on ground telling families trapped #LatimerRoad #Grenfell to cover faces w/ wet towels & try to get out. Don't wait for fire brigade (Nargess Moballeghi, 13 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) People remain trapped inside Grenfell Tower
--(Guardian correspondent) Alice Ross has just filed this devastating account from the scene: People can be seen at the windows, including one man waving a blanket from the window. People from neighbouring estates are huddled outside in their pyjamas near the flaming building, some shouting “put your head out the window” or calling the man with the blanket to shout his flat numbers so they can guide the fire services to him. Fire officers are spraying his window with water to try and douse the flames.

There’s a smell of acrid smoke and flaming debris is spiralling from the building. There’s the sound of breaking glass and dull pops. “There was a woman with a child. I saw her waving maybe 30mins ago,” said a man who asked not to be named. “She said I’ve got a child ... I saw them spraying her window.”

Hadil Alamily said in the past hour she saw “someone jump on fire from the top floor”. She had seen him flashing a light in an SOS pattern. “He was screaming help, help, help but no one helped. He dashed a mattress out of the window. He was literally on fire and jumped.”
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--Fire has now totally consumed #GrenfellTower. @LondonFire doing absolutely heroic work in very tough circumstances. (Tim Downie, 13 June 2017)
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(The Guardian) According to Get West London, the Grenfell Tower block had recently undergone a major £10 million refurbishment. Nick Paget-Brown, the leader of the Kensington and Chelsea Council, and Rock Feilding-Mellen, the deputy, visited the tower upon completion of the renovation in May last year.

The upgrade – which included the installation of insulated exterior cladding, new double-glazed windows, and a new communal heating system – was funded by the council as part of a multi-million-dollar regeneration of the area.

According to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s website, the tower block was built in 1974 and contained 120 homes, managed by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation on behalf of the council. Among the tenants were Grenfell Under 3s Nursery and Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club.

The refurbishment also created “nine much-needed new homes have been created from unused spaces”.
-Read more: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/north-kensington-estate-benefits-10m-11329924
-Read more: https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/housing/regenyour-neighbourhood/grenfell-tower
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...there are times where I hate being a newsman.....tonight's one of them. :'(
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--Just seen this awful tower block fire near my home in W London. My prayers with those affected & heroes tackling it (George Osbourne, Evening Standard - 13 June 2017)
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--#NorthKensington tower block fire declared major incident, crews working hard at scene (London Fire Brigade, 14 June 2017)
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