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Horrendous! Feels like I'm watching twin towers again. Poor souls stuck inside, and you know many didn't get out. Jump or suffer the fire - what a choice for the poor people.
Refurbished recently...... On the cheap?!?
The outside cladding was oil-based polystyrene and has caused problems in Middle East.
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
Residents were told in a fire to stay in flat (behind fire door) with a wet towel on the floor...
The people alive ignored that advice.
Like the Korean kids on the ferry.
Use your wits, don't blindly follow... Easy to say.
The point is not that expert advice is always right, rather that if you follow expert advice you are more likely to survive than if you don't. Unless you have enough information and knowledge to know that the expert advice is not appropriate in the current situation, you should not follow your wits.
If the cladding is attached to battens, creating a gap between the building and the cladding, that's a perfect space to draw air, and thus flame, up the full height of the building very quickly. Temperatures will rise extremely fast and the building is as good as lost.
There are bound to be standards for the fire resistance of the battens and the cladding, but one the temperature reaches a critical point, that's it.
The point is not that expert advice is always right, rather that if you follow expert advice you are more likely to survive than if you don't. Unless you have enough information and knowledge to know that the expert advice is not appropriate in the current situation, you should not follow your wits.
It's a difficult one. Yes, expert advise is usually best to follow, but don't blindly follow it either.
The councillor that was on TV this morning said that with the recent refurb it should have been the safest tower block in the area.
You'd hope that today's standards are vastly superior to what was used when these buildings were built in the 60s. I'm sure we'll find out in many months time. Combination of factors nobody thought was possible probably.
When I turned on the TV and saw a burning tower block I did immediately think it was another 9/11.
It's amazing that these tall tower blocks aren't compelled to have a huge water tank on the roof, from where a sprinkler system can automatically draw water to douse any fire before it spreads.
Actually, it isn't very surprising at all, because that would cost a few extra pennies.
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