There was a fire in a London tower block last week.
“Non compliant cladding”
Excellent BBC radio series about Grenfell recently. Ten 15 minute episodes. BBC Radio 4 - Grenfell: Building a Disaster, 1. Wake Up Call
The pleasures and risks of living like a Socialist urban peasant in a Soviet style urbanisation, so the party elites can have more.This is your allocated accomodation comrade.
As for a major fire basically your odds of survival are directly proportional to how high your apartment is and how many below you to burn and the level and quality of high rise fire fighting kit available.Which at best will still stop way short of the levels involved.High rise blocks are a death trap.
The Grenfell Fire report is to be published today. 7years after the event. The programme I linked to above was all based on the public enquiry and witness interviews.
Many buildings still have inflammable cladding pointed to in the initial stages of the inquiry.
Some one on Today BBC R4 posed the question
“Would it have taken 7 years? Would it be that buildings are still this dangerous? Would we still be waiting if it was a Bank or Office, and not social housing?”
To Add: Police say no charges would be announced until late 2026 at the earliest
charges for what, it was a house fire as far as i recall
The question is was it increased and accelerated by use of known excessive fire risk materials adding to the risks of high rise living.
If incompetence negligence or downright lying regarding the safety of the cladding is proved it could lead to charges of corporate manslaughter.
“More than 180 police officers are investigating 58 suspected individuals and 19 companies, with potential charges including corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, fraud and misconduct in public office.”
From Police under pressure to accelerate criminal investigation into Grenfell fire | Grenfell Tower fire | The Guardian
"Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who led the inquiry, found that firms which made the combustible materials used on the tower – Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan – “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to … mislead the market”.
He identified incompetence, “cavalier” attitudes and “concealment” of wrongdoing, while Grenfell residents’ safety concerns were dismissed by their local authority and the landlord of the west London building they called home."
A short YT on the philosophy behind some one the problems…
2nd line in and he mentions Soviet 