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The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on ...
Britain's deadliest residential fire since World War Two ripped through a 23-storey block on June 14, 2017, killing 72 people and causing a national reckoning over the safety and conditions of ...
LONDON — Seven years after a fire in a London high-rise building killed 72 people, an exhaustive public inquiry is set to report on the lapses and mistakes that turned a small fire in an ...
The fact-finding inquiry began soon after the fire at Grenfell Tower, which broke out in the early morning hours of June 14, 2017, and quickly engulfed the 25-story public housing block. The inquiry received testimony from more than 1,500 witnesses and reviewed some 300,000 documents before delivering its final report.
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Grenfell Tower two days after the fire broke out. At a news conference in the afternoon of 14 June, LFB reported firefighters had rescued 65 people from the building and reached all 24 floors. [90] Seventy-four people were confirmed by the NHS to be in six hospitals across London with 20 of them in critical care. [91]
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is a British public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and destroyed Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017. [1] It was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May on the day following the fire.
The fire also severely affected three low-rise "finger blocks" adjoining Grenfell Tower. Their residents were evacuated due to the fire. The blocks, Barandon Walk, Testerton Walk and Hurstway Walk, also lost access to hot water as they shared a boiler beneath Grenfell Tower that was destroyed in the fire. [13]