London Fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-40239008

Poor London 🙁

It just can't get a break, it seems.

Pretty awful yeah, a lot of evidence pointing to gross negligence on the council's part being the cause.

Fires happen, sadly usually when precautions aren't taken. As I understand it warnings were given this place was a fire risk when it was renovated... Not good. I would hate to have that on my conscience.

did they build the thing out of matchsticks? i thought high rise apartments were constructed with the sole purpose of this not happening.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
did they build the thing out of matchsticks? i thought high rise apartments were constructed with the sole purpose of this not happening.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-fire-residents-predicted-a-catastrophe-in-chilling-warnings-but-claim-safety-fears-fell-on-a3564591.html

The poor never catch a break.

i often see new apartment buildings being built here with no firewalls. not high-rises, but still these are 4-5 stories of nothing but timber and sheetrock. and these are not projects, either. newly constructed, middle class, and even breaking into upper-middle.

Yes it is strange that this happened. When constructing apartments there's all sorts of Fire safety checks you have to pass.

@Bash Yup, happens here all the time in the UK also, we have a book called the 17th edition building regs which should be followed and checked, I know because a while ago I retrained as an Electrician something I had trained in, in my teens, before going back to my previous career which I had studied at University to follow and needed a break from due to all sorts of things. @ DT Often those checks can be avoided if the project involves a big contract. Same as it ever was.

It's absolutely Awful. Witnesses say kids were screaming out the window shouting for help.

@ Steve yeah sounds like it was refurbished on the cheap bypasssing whatever checks they could.

Which is ironic given this took place in London's richest constituency.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
Which is ironic given this took place in London's richest constituency.

30 confirmed dead, 70 still missing, Theresa too much of a chicken to meet with any of the victims. This is going to have a major impact on the Tories' reputation tbh.

so there is currently a fire in my building that is close the my unit, i can see and smell black smoke. with in 5 mins there is now 6 fire trucks, 4 paramedics, 5 cop cars

not making this up

the fire department told me to stay inside my unit so now i am trapped on the 16th floor, there is 200 units in my building

anyway, i won't derail this topic any further.... 👆

I hope your alright mate. 🙁

Here is an article I recently saw:

Two women feared dead in Grenfell Tower were 'threatened with legal action' for raising alarm about fire safety

It's disturbing and it seems like the management or whoever is in charge knew about the safety problems in the Tower and did nothing.

Originally posted by The Nuul
the fire department told me to stay inside my unit so now i am trapped on the 16th floor, there is 200 units in my building

Originally posted by The Nuul
anyway, i won't derail this topic any further.... 👆

Your profile says you have not posted since you made that last post. Are you okay?

not that im drawing any conclusions, but look who else stopped posting.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f61/t643167.html

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
not that im drawing any conclusions, but look who else stopped posting.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f61/t643167.html

The strange thing is Jake still checks the forum. If you look at his profile his last post was on the June 9th, but he last logged in on the 15th.